US Patent Issued to NICHIA on April 7 for "Light-emitting device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,760, issued on April 7, was assigned to NICHIA Corp. (Anan, Japan).

"Light-emitting device" was invented by Takeshi Imai (Anan, Japan) and Koji Yuasa (Anan, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light-emitting device includes semiconductor laser elements including first color-light-emitting laser elements that emit red light, arrayed in a matrix of M rows and N columns (where Mless than=2 and Nless than=3). The first color-light-emitting laser elements include two or more first semiconductor laser elements each having an emission peak wavelength of smaller than 647 nmplus-minus2 nm, two or more second semiconductor laser elements ea...