US Patent Issued to Lumileds on July 15 for "Self-supporting wavelength-converting phosphor layer" (German, Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,070, issued on July 15, was assigned to Lumileds LLC (San Jose, Calif.).

"Self-supporting wavelength-converting phosphor layer" was invented by Jens Meyer (Aachen, Germany), Niels Jeroen Van Der Veen (Schiphol, Netherlands) and Ronja Missong (Aachen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A layer of multiple phosphor particles is formed on a surface of a substrate, and inorganic material is formed or deposited to embed at least partially the layer of phosphor particles on the substrate. A wavelength-converting layer is thus formed, including the phosphor particles and the inorganic material, that is then separated from the substrate....