ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,273, issued on June 3, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Segmented and quantum mechanically isolated active regions in light emitting diodes" was invented by Yong Tae Moon (Cork, Ireland), Alexander Tonkikh (Wenzenbach, Germany) and Christophe Antoine Hurni (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "LED devices and corresponding techniques for manufacturing LED devices are described. In some embodiments, an LED device includes a plurality of mesas, each mesa corresponding to a separate LED and including a layered semiconductor structure. The layered semiconductor structure includes an active region an...