ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,903, issued on July 14, was assigned to NICHIA Corp. (Anan, Japan).

"Method of manufacturing light-emitting element and light-emitting element" was invented by Akira Fujioka (Tokushima, Japan) and Taku Yuasa (Anan, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of manufacturing light-emitting elements includes: providing a wafer including a semiconductor stack, the semiconductor stack including: first semiconductor layer, an active layer on the first semiconductor layer, and a second semiconductor layer on the active layer, wherein the semiconductor stack includes element areas each including a part of the first semiconductor layer, a...