US Patent Issued to CreeLED on Aug. 12 for "Three dimensional LED device and method of manufacture" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,605, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to CreeLED Inc. (Durham, N.C.).

"Three dimensional LED device and method of manufacture" was invented by Robert Wilcox (Rolesville, N.C.), Michael Check (Holly Springs, N.C.), Colin Blakely (Raleigh, N.C.), David Suich (Durham, N.C.), Joseph G. Sokol (Durham, N.C.) and Andre Pertuit (Raleigh, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Solid-state lighting devices, and more particularly to a three-dimensional (3D) light-emitting diode (LED) device and a method of manufacture are disclosed. A submount of the LED can have several submount portions that are angled with respect to each other, and LED chips ca...