ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,521, issued on July 1, was assigned to Lumileds LLC (San Jose, Calif.).

"Adhesive film transfer coating and use in the manufacture of light emitting devices" was invented by Emma Dohner (Redwood City, Calif.), Grigoriy Basin (San Francisco), Daniel B. Roitman (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Vernon K. Wong (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A converter layer bonding device, and methods of making and using the converter layer bonding device are disclosed. A converter layer bonding device as disclosed herein includes a release liner and an adhesive layer coating the release liner, the adhesive layer is solid and non-adhesive at ro...