US Patent Issued to Lumileds on July 29 for "High brightness directional direct emitter with photonic filter of angular momentum" (Dutch, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,442, issued on July 29, was assigned to Lumileds LLC (San Jose, Calif.).

"High brightness directional direct emitter with photonic filter of angular momentum" was invented by Antonio Lopez-Julia (Vaals, Netherlands) and Venkata Ananth Tamma (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A nano-structure layer is disclosed. The nano-structure layer includes a plurality of nano-photonic structures that are configured in a first configuration such that light incident upon the nanostructured layer below a cut-off angle passes through the nanostructured layer and light incident upon the nanostructured layer above the cut-off angle is re...