US Patent Issued to NICHIA on Oct. 27 for "Light source device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,799, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to NICHIA Corp. (Anan, Japan).

"Light source device" was invented by Norimasa Yoshida (Komatsushima, Japan) and Tsuyoshi Okahisa (Tokushima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light source device includes: a plurality of light emitting parts arranged in a matrix, each having an upper surface that includes a light emitting surface, each of the light emitting parts being configured to emit light from the light emitting surfaces and at least one of the light emitting parts being configured to be individually turned on, wherein: each of the light emitting parts includes: a light emitting element, ...