US Patent Issued to Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives on June 30 for "Method for producing an LED and LED produced by said method" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,412, issued on June 30, was assigned to Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives (Paris).

"Method for producing an LED and LED produced by said method" was invented by Corentin Le Maoult (Grenoble Cedex, France) and David Vaufrey (Grenoble Cedex, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light-emitting diode manufacturing method, including the successive steps of: a) forming an active layer including a stack of multiple quantum wells, each quantum well including a layer made of a semiconductor alloy; b) forming a trench for singularizing the diode, the trench crossing the active layer; and c) applying to the sides...