US Patent Issued to NICHIA on May 5 for "Light-emitting module and planar light source" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,022, issued on May 5, was assigned to NICHIA Corp. (Anan, Japan).

"Light-emitting module and planar light source" was invented by Yuichi Yamada (Itano-gun, Japan), Keiji Emura (Anan, Japan) and Seitaro Akagawa (Komatsushima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light-emitting module includes light source units arranged in a first direction and in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. Each of the light source units includes at least one light-emitting element and a light-transmissive member covering the light-emitting element and having a lateral surface from which light from the light-emitting element is emitted. In a...