US Patent Issued to NICHIA on Aug. 11 for "Semiconductor light-emitting element" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,767, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to NICHIA Corp. (Anan, Japan).

"Semiconductor light-emitting element" was invented by Yasunobu Hosokawa (Tokushima, Japan) and Takumi Otsuka (Anan, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor light-emitting element includes a semiconductor structure including an n-side semiconductor layer including a first region, a second region located on an outer periphery of the first region, and a plurality of third regions surrounded by the first region in a plan view, a light-emitting layer disposed on the first region, and a p-side semiconductor layer disposed on the light-emitting layer; a first ...