ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,224,182, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to LUMILEDS LLC (San Jose, Calif.).

"Fan out structure for light-emitting diode (LED) device and lighting system" was invented by Tze Yang Hin (Cupertino, Calif.), Anantharaman Vaidyanathan (San Jose, Calif.), Srini Banna (San Jose, Calif.) and Ronald Johannes Bonne (Plainfield, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems are described. A system includes a silicon backplane having a top surface, a bottom surface, and side surfaces and a substrate surrounding the side surfaces of the silicon backplane. The substrate has a top surface, a bottom surface and side surfaces. At least one bond pad is pro...