ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,610,659, issued on April 21, was assigned to LUMILEDS SINGAPORE PTE. LTD. (Singapore).

"Semiconductor light-emitting device with near-field multi-layer reflector" was invented by Aleksandr Vaskin (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Mohamed S. Abdelkhalik (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Debapriya Pal (Amsterdam), Jaime Gomez Rivas (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Albert Femius Koenderink (Amsterdam), Toni Lopez (Aachen, Germany) and Aimi Abass (Aachen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light-emitting device includes a semiconductor diode structure and a multi-layer reflector (MLR) structure. The diode structure includes first and second doped semiconduc...