US Patent Issued to Meta Platforms Technologies on March 24 for "MQW size reduction for improved external quantum efficiency" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,345, issued on March 24, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"MQW size reduction for improved external quantum efficiency" was invented by Samir Mezouari (Swindon, Great Britain), Robert Leslie Breakspear (Swindon, Great Britain), Andrea Pinos (Plymouth, Great Britain) and Wei Sin Tan (Plymouth, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light source a backplane including drive circuits formed thereon, an array of micro-light emitting diodes (micro-LEDs) bonded to the backplane, and an array of micro-lenses on the array of micro-LEDs. Each micro-LED of the array of micro-LEDs includes a mesa str...