US Patent Issued to Lumileds on April 15 for "Low Z-height LED arrays with controllable light beams" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,827, issued on April 15, was assigned to Lumileds LLC (San Jose, Calif.).

"Low Z-height LED arrays with controllable light beams" was invented by Sudhir Subramanya (Dublin, Calif.), Willem Sillevis-Smitt (San Jose, Calif.), Frederic Diana (San Jose, Calif.), Charles Schrama (San Jose, Calif.), Alan McReynolds (San Jose, Calif.) and Yifeng Qiu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light source useful for architectural lighting, general lighting, street lighting, or other lighting applications includes a plurality of light emitting diodes. A least some light emitting diodes can be sized between 30 microns and 500 microns. A...