ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,728, issued on June 30, was assigned to SATURN LICENSING LLC (New York).

"Display and lighting apparatus including a light-emitting unit that emits high quality illumination through arrangements of lenses and light emitting devices" was invented by Takaharu Shimizu (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light-emitting unit includes a plurality of lenses; and two or more light-emitting devices covered by each of the lenses, and the two or more light-emitting devices covered by one lens of the lenses are electrically separated from each other."

The patent was filed on April 27, 2023, under Application No. 18/140,012.

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