US Patent Issued to Nikkiso on July 28 for "Susceptor and method for manufacturing nitride semiconductor light-emitting element" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,730, issued on July 28, was assigned to Nikkiso Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Susceptor and method for manufacturing nitride semiconductor light-emitting element" was invented by Kazufumi Takao (Hakusan, Japan) and Cyril Pernot (Hakusan, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A susceptor includes a pocket in which a wafer is placed. A side surface of the pocket comprises a side-surface circumference portion formed in a circumference shape and a side-surface enlarged portion formed to extend toward an outer circumferential side of the pocket beyond the side-surface circumference portion. In a plan view seen from an open side of the pocket, when a ...