US Patent Issued to Snap on Sept. 23 for "Arrays of LED structures extending through holes in a dielectric layer and independently activated" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,426, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Arrays of LED structures extending through holes in a dielectric layer and independently activated" was invented by Tao Wang (Sheffield, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of producing a light emitting diode (LED) array comprises: forming a semiconductor layer of group III nitride material; forming a dielectric mask layer over the semiconductor layer, the dielectric mask layer having an array of holes through it each exposing an area of the semiconductor layer; and growing an LED structure in each of the holes. The array of holes comprises...