ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,833, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to NICHIA Corp. (Anan, Japan).
"Planar light-emitting device" was invented by Takeshi Tamura (Tokushima, Japan) and Yuichi Hirao (Tokushima, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A planar light-emitting device includes a plurality of light-emitting elements arranged at same intervals in a planar configuration, and a wavelength conversion member located above the plurality of light-emitting elements. The plurality of light-emitting elements is configured to emit blue light. The wavelength conversion member contains a phosphor that emits light when being excited by light emitted from the light-emitting...