US Patent Issued to LUMILEDS on Nov. 3 for "LED array with continuous semiconductor layer" (Dutch, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,787,523, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to LUMILEDS LLC (San Jose, Calif.).

"LED array with continuous semiconductor layer" was invented by Antonio Lopez-Julia (Vaals, Netherlands) and Erik Young (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An n-doped semiconductor layer spans multiple LEDs of an array, in some cases the entire array. Corresponding p-contacts are localized on the p-doped semiconductor layer of each LED to only a central region of that LED and are electrically isolated from the p-contacts of adjacent LEDs. Corresponding n-contacts (i) are localized to only peripheral regions of the corresponding LEDs, (ii) extend throu...