ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,578, issued on April 14, was assigned to NICHIA Corp. (Anan, Japan).

"Light-emitting device and method of manufacturing the light-emitting device" was invented by Hiroaki Ukawa (Itano-gun, Japan) and Noriaki Akita (Anan, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of manufacturing a light-emitting device, including: disposing a light-emitting part on a first electrically conductive wiring, and electrically connecting the light-emitting part with the first electrically conductive wiring and with a second electrically conductive wiring via wires; providing a mask member including a mask part including a first covering part to be loc...