ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,393, issued on June 23, was assigned to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Light-emitting apparatus and manufacturing method thereof" was invented by Kensaku Maeda (Kanagawa, Japan) and Atsushi Yamamoto (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To provide a light-emitting apparatus capable of shaping light from a plurality of light-emitting elements into light with a plurality of shapes and a manufacturing method thereof. A light-emitting apparatus according to the present disclosure, including: a substrate; a plurality of light-emitting elements which are provided on a side of a first surface of the substra...