ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,230, issued on July 14, was assigned to NITTO DENKO Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Light guide member for light emission device and light emission device" was invented by Yufeng Weng (Osaka, Japan), Kozo Nakamura (Osaka, Japan) and Takahiro Yoshikawa (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lightguide component for light emission devices has a first principal face and a second principal face at an opposite side from the first principal face. The lightguide component for light emission devices includes: a lightguide layer including a light-receiving portion to receive light emitted from a light source, a third principal face at the firs...