ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,557,703, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Century Technology (Shenzhen) Corporation Limited (Shenzhen, China).

"Illuminator, illuminator repairing device, and illuminator repairing method" was invented by Kuang-Hua Liu (Shenzhen, China) and Ming-Yi Hsieh (New Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An illuminator comprises a substrate, a plurality of connecting pads, a plurality of LEDs, and a plurality of adhesive blocks. The plurality of connecting pads is on the substrate, each of the connecting pads defines a first well. Each of the plurality of LEDs is on one of the plurality of connecting pads. Each of the plurality of adhe...