US Patent Issued to CreeLED on Oct. 27 for "Light-emitting diode chip structures" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,761, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to CreeLED Inc. (Durham, N.C.).

"Light-emitting diode chip structures" was invented by Michael Check (Holly Springs, N.C.), Steven Wuester (Wake Forest, N.C.), Seth Joseph Balkey (Durham, N.C.) and Nikolas Hall (Durham, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and more particularly LED chip structures are disclosed. LED chip structures include arrangements of one or more contacts, interconnects, contact structures, and/or reflective layers that effectively route electrically conductive paths while also reducing instances of closely spaced electrically charged metals of oppo...