ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,541, issued on March 31, was assigned to NICHIA Corp. (Anan, Japan).

"Light-emitting element" was invented by Eiji Muramoto (Tokushima, Japan) and Kosuke Yoshioka (Naruto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shortest distance between a first p-side electrode and a second p-side connection portion is greater than a shortest distance between the first p-side electrode and a closest one of first n-side connection portions most proximate to the first p-side electrode among a plurality of first n-side connection portions in the plan view. The second p-side electrode is located at least in a region between the first p-side electrode an...