US Patent Issued to GENTEX, MAYO FOUNDATION FOR MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH on June 2 for "Illumination assembly including a microlens array" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,644,575, issued on June 2, was assigned to GENTEX Corp. (Zeeland, Mich.) and MAYO FOUNDATION FOR MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH (Rochester, Minn.).

"Illumination assembly including a microlens array" was invented by Jason D. Hallack (Zeeland, Mich.), Danny L. Minikey Jr. (Fenwick, Mich.) and Eric P. Bigoness (Ada, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An illumination system includes an array of LEDs including a plurality of first LEDs and a plurality of second LEDs. A microlens array overlays the plurality of LEDs and includes a plurality of first lenses corresponding to the plurality of first LEDs and a plurality of second lenses correspo...