US Patent Issued to CreeLED on Feb. 17 for "Contact structures in light-emitting diode chips for reduced voiding of bonding metals" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,557,443, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to CreeLED Inc. (Durham, N.C.).

"Contact structures in light-emitting diode chips for reduced voiding of bonding metals" was invented by Michael Check (Holly Springs, N.C.), Justin White (Morrisville, N.C.), Steven Wuester (Wake Forest, N.C.), Nikolas Hall (Durham, N.C.), Kevin Haberern (Cary, N.C.), Colin Blakely (Raleigh, N.C.) and Jesse Reiherzer (Raleigh, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Solid-state lighting devices including light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and more particularly contact structures in LED chips for reducing voiding of bonding metals are disclosed. LED chips include active LED s...