US Patent Issued to Lumileds on Sept. 16 for "Light emitting diodes with segmented anodes by pixel" (American, Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,137, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Lumileds LLC (San Jose, Calif.).

"Light emitting diodes with segmented anodes by pixel" was invented by Isaac Wildeson (Nashua, N.H.), Hossein Lotfi (Folsom, Calif.), Ronald Bonne (Plainfield, Ill.) and Toni Lopez (Vaals, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light emitting diode (LED) device comprises a plurality of pixels on a backplane, each pixel comprising: semiconductor layers, which include an N-type layer, an active region, and a P-type layer; a cathode electrically contacting the N-type layer; an anode comprising anode segments electrically contacting respective portions of th...