ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,038, issued on April 14, was assigned to Lumileds Singapore Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Sparse LED array systems" was invented by Brendan Jude Moran (San Jose, Calif.) and Johannes Willem Herman Sillevis Smitt (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display that contains a sparse array of light-emitting diodes (LEDs), including a related system and method of fabrication are disclosed. The display includes at least one panel disposed in or on a transparent material to provide a display on one or both sides of the material. Each tile has a transparent flexible substrate, a sparse array of LEDs disposed on the transparent flexib...