ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,299, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Light-emitting device and electronic apparatus using same" was invented by Shozo Oshio (Osaka, Japan), Mitsuru Nitta (Kyoto, Japan) and Ryosuke Shigitani (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a light-emitting device provided with a solid-state light-emitting element and a phosphor and emits output light. The spectral distribution of the output light has a first light component and a second light component derived from fluorescence emitted by the phosphor, and has a first minimum value between the first ligh...