US Patent Issued to Lumileds on July 1 for "Nitridophosphate phosphors for solid state lighting and method of production" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,344,785, issued on July 1, was assigned to Lumileds LLC (San Jose, Calif.).

"Nitridophosphate phosphors for solid state lighting and method of production" was invented by Sebastian Wendl (Aachen, Germany), Peter Josef Schmidt (Aachen, Germany) and Wolfgang Schnick (Aachen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of forming a nitridophosphate is disclosed, the method including forming a precursor mixture by combining a metal source material, a phosphorus source material, and a nitrogen source material, and heating the precursor mixture at a maximum temperature between 800deg C. and 1300deg C. in an atmosphere including nitrogen gas...