ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,659, issued on June 24, was assigned to GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC (Detroit).

"Phosphor coatings for micro light-emitting diode (LED) displays" was invented by Jonglee Park (Troy, Mich.) and Susan Carol Ellis (Hampton, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure include light-emitting diodes (LEDs) formed without phosphor deformation during the lamination process. An exemplary method can include forming one or more LEDs on a backplane and forming a protective layer on the backplane. The protective layer can be patterned to define one or more trenches exposing sidewalls of a respective one LED of the one o...