ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,211,885, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Lumileds LLC (San Jose, Calif.).
"Semiconductor light emitting device" was invented by Nicola Bettina Pfeffer (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Arjen Gerben Van der Sijde (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Pieter Johannes Quintus van Voorst Vader (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor light-emitting device has an emitter matrix with an arrangement of emitter cells interspersed with non-emitter cells. The emitter cell has a semiconductor emitter, and a non-emitter cell does not have a semiconductor emitter. A number of bond pads for connection to a power supply and a plurality ...