ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,238, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to NICHIA Corp. (Anan, Japan).
"Light-emitting device" was invented by Seiji Kiyota (Itano-gun, Japan), Kazuma Kozuru (Anan, Japan) and Eiichiro Okahisa (Tokushima, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light-emitting device includes: a base having an upper surface; one or more semiconductor laser elements disposed on the upper surface and configured to emit light in a first direction in a top view; one or more reflecting members spaced from the one or more semiconductor laser elements in the first direction in a top view; and a lens member having one or more lens sections through which light ref...