US Patent Issued to OSRAM Opto Semiconductors on Dec. 30 for "Method for producing a ceramic converter element, ceramic converter element, and optoelectronic component" (Massachusetts, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,630, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to OSRAM Opto Semiconductors GmbH (Regensburg, Germany).

"Method for producing a ceramic converter element, ceramic converter element, and optoelectronic component" was invented by Zhengbo Yu (Shrewsbury, Mass.), Madis Raukas (Lexington, Mass.) and John F. Kelso (Exeter, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing a ceramic converter element is provided. The method includes providing a phosphor as a starting material, mixing the phosphor and at least one metal oxide powder to form a mixture, and processing the mixture to form a ceramic converter material in which the phosphor is emb...