US Patent Issued to Luminus on Sept. 9 for "Hybrid laser and LED based illumination device" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,410,906, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Luminus Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Hybrid laser and LED based illumination device" was invented by Muralidhar Kumar (Pleasanton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for combining electrically isolated LEDs and one or more laser diodes into a hybrid illumination device are presented herein. A hybrid LED and laser diode based illumination device includes both electrically isolated LEDs and one or more laser diodes assembled on common metal core printed circuit board. Employing electrically isolated LEDs allows the electrical connection of multiple LEDs in series on the comm...