ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,785,354, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to NICHIA Corp. (Anan, Japan).

"Light-emitting device" was invented by Soichiro Miura (Tokushima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light-emitting device includes a light-emitting element, a substrate supporting the light-emitting element, and one or more lateral wall portions joined to the substrate to surround the light-emitting element. The one or more lateral wall portions includes a first lateral wall portion having a light incident surface configured to receive a light emitted from the light-emitting element and traveling in a first direction and a light exit surface configured to emit th...