US Patent Issued to Lumileds on Oct. 27 for "Combined LED and sensor arrangement" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,970, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Lumileds LLC (San Jose, Calif.).

"Combined LED and sensor arrangement" was invented by Arjen Gerben Van der Sijde (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Nicola Bettina Pfeffer (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Pieter Johannes Quintus van Voorst Vader (Son, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mobile device contains an integrated structure (e.g., a semiconductor structure) that includes an LED matrix with one or more LED arrays and sensors on at least opposing edges of the LED matrix. Each LED array has LEDs that are separated by non-emitting areas and the LEDs are independently driven to provide light. T...