ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,227,686, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Ceramic phosphor array" was invented by Rifat Ata Mustafa Hikmet (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Ties Van Bommel (Horst, Netherlands) and Oliver Francis Burke (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides a light generating device (1000) comprising a light source (10) and a luminescent element (20), wherein:-the light source (10) is configured to generate the first radiation (11); wherein the light source (10) comprises a laser light source;-the luminescent element (20) comprises (i) a plurality of element bodies (200) an...