US Patent Issued to Apple on Oct. 14 for "Active / passive control of micro LED performance through sidewall gating" (California, New Mexico Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,370, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Active / passive control of micro LED performance through sidewall gating" was invented by Yuewei Zhang (Santa Barbara, Calif.), Fang Ou (San Jose, Calif.), Lei Zhang (Albuquerque, N.M.), Lina He (San Jose, Calif.), Paul S. Drzaic (Morgan Hill, Calif.) and Xiaobin Xin (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Display structures and methods of operation with micro light emitting diode (LED) sidewall gating are described. In an embodiment, a display structure includes a vertically oriented micro LED mounted on a display substrate, in which the micro LED in...