ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,222, issued on March 18, was assigned to Plessey Semiconductors Ltd. (Plymouth, Great Britain).

"LED array and method of forming a LED array" was invented by Andrea Pinos (Plymouth, Great Britain), Xiang Yu (Plymouth, Great Britain), Simon Ashton (Plymouth, Great Britain) and Jonathan Shipp (Plymouth, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Light Emitting Diode (LED) array precursor is provided. The LED array precursor comprises a substrate having a substrate surface, a first LED stack, a p++ layer, a n++ layer and a second LED stack. The first LED stack is provided on a first portion of the substrate surface. The first LED s...