ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,997, issued on March 17, was assigned to CreeLED Inc. (Durham, N.C.).

"Light-emitting diode packages with directional emission intensity and color uniformity" was invented by Aaron Francis (Apex, N.C.) and Derek Miller (Columbus, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Light-emitting diode (LED) packages and more particularly LED packages with directional emission intensity and color uniformity are disclosed. LED packages include one or more LED chips on a submount with arrangements of light-altering materials and lumiphoric material layers that provide directional light emissions with improved color over angle uniformity. Light-alterin...