ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,656, issued on May 27, was assigned to LUMILEDS LLC (San Jose, Calif.).
"Light emitting device" was invented by Floris Maria Hermansz Crompvoets (Bunde, Netherlands), Christian Kleijnen (Ell, Germany), Georg Henninger (Aachen, Germany), Danijel Labas (Baesweiler, Germany) and Gerhard Hebbinghaus (Juelich, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a light emitting device (LED), especially a LED at least partly embedded in transparent or translucent silicone fill, whereby the embedded LED is housed in a white silicone housing. Here and in the following, the wording transparent silicone fill always means a transpar...