US Patent Issued to CreeLED on June 24 for "Illumination devices using externally interconnected arrays of light emitting devices, and methods of fabricating same" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,137, issued on June 24, was assigned to CreeLED Inc. (Durham, N.C.).

"Illumination devices using externally interconnected arrays of light emitting devices, and methods of fabricating same" was invented by Gerald H. Negley (Chapel Hill, N.C.) and Antony Paul Van de Ven (Sai Kung, Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light emitter, comprising light emitting devices mechanically interconnected by a common substrate and an interconnection submount. The light emitting devices are electrically interconnected by the submount to provide an array of serially connected subsets of light emitting devices, each subset comprising at least t...