US Patent Issued to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS on June 10 for "Structural composite with encapsulated microLED task lighting and molded-in optics" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,254, issued on June 10, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Structural composite with encapsulated microLED task lighting and molded-in optics" was invented by Bradley Allen Newcomb (Troy, Mich.), Jonglee Park (Novi, Mich.) and Julien P. Mourou (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A composite structure includes a structural composite including a plurality of reinforcing fibers encapsulated in a first polymer resin. M sets of traces are arranged on the structural composite. N sets of microLEDs are arranged on the structural composite and connected to the M sets of traces, respectively, wh...