ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,913, issued on July 14, was assigned to NICHIA Corp. (Anan, Japan).

"Light-emitting device and method for manufacturing same" was invented by Hiroshi Miyairi (Yokohama, Japan), Takayuki Igarashi (Yokohama, Japan), Shinya Endo (Yokohama, Japan), Yoshifumi Hodono (Yokohama, Japan) and Yoshimi Katsumoto (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light-emitting device includes a substrate, a light-emitting element provided on the substrate, the light-emitting element being configured to emit a first light, a wavelength conversion layer provided on the light-emitting element and containing a plurality of wavelength conversion parti...