US Patent Issued to Intel on Aug. 4 for "Micro light emitting diode structures for efficient communication of an optical signal" (California, Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,068, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Micro light emitting diode structures for efficient communication of an optical signal" was invented by Khaled Ahmed (San Jose, Calif.) and Brandon Marin (Gilbert, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques and mechanisms for a micro-LED ("uLED") structure to facilitate efficient communication of an optical signal. In an embodiment, a columnar "nanopost" uLED structure comprises contiguous bodies of respective semiconductor materials, including a first body of a doped semiconductor material. The first body forms a pyramidal structure, wherein one or more o...