ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,798, issued on July 8, was assigned to Nextgen Nano Ltd. (London) and North Carolina State University (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Structure for emitting light, light-emitting diode (LED), and method of manufacturing a structure for emitting light" was invented by Matthew Stone (London), Franky So (Cary, N.C.), Qi Dong (Raleigh, N.C.) and Liping Zhu (Raleigh, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A structure for emitting light is provided. The structure comprises an emissive layer (EML) positioned between electrodes. The EML is tuned such that emission of a transverse electric (TE) waveguide mode from the EML is promoted. The structure further com...