ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,416, issued on June 17, was assigned to SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Laser SMD package with phosphor and light incoupler" was invented by Hugo Johan Cornelissen (Escharen, Netherlands) and Ties Van Bommel (Horst, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides a light generating system (1000) comprising a lighting unit (100), a luminescent element (210), an optical element (400), and a reflective element (510), wherein: (a) the lighting unit (100) is configured to generate a beam (102) of unit light (101); (b) the luminescent element (210) comprises a luminescent material (200) configured to conve...