ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,787,502, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Toyoda Gosei Co. Ltd. (Kiyosu, Japan).

"Light emitting element and production method therefor" was invented by Koji Okuno (Kiyosu, Japan), Koichi Goshonoo (Kiyosu, Japan) and Masaki Oya (Kiyosu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light emitting element includes: a substrate; an n layer over the substrate as defined herein; a first active layer over the n layer as defined herein; a middle layer over the first active layer as defined herein; a second active layer over the middle layer as defined herein; a first electron blocking layer over the second active layer as defined herein; a groove hav...