US Patent Issued to NICHIA on Sept. 8 for "Light emitting element" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,733,327, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to NICHIA Corp. (Anan, Japan).

"Light emitting element" was invented by Yoshinori Fukui (Tokushima, Japan), Shun Kitahama (Tokushima, Japan) and Yoshiki Inoue (Anan, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light emitting element includes: a first semiconductor layer; light emitting cells disposed on the first semiconductor layer, each including: an active layer, and a second semiconductor layer disposed on the active layer, wherein the light emitting cells include a first light emitting cell positioned in a center, and a plurality of second light emitting cells positioned around the first light emi...