ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,874, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Lumileds Singapore Ptd. Ltd. (Singapore).

"LED with structured layers and nanophosphors" was invented by Venkata Ananth Tamma (San Jose, Calif.) and Antonio Lopez-Julia (Vaals, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device comprising a light emitting diode (LED) substrate, and a meta-molecule wavelength converting layer positioned within an emitted light path from the LED substrate, the a meta-molecule wavelength converting layer including a plurality of nanoparticles, the plurality of nanoparticles configured to increase a light path length in the wavelength converting layer."

The paten...