US Patent Issued to OLEDWorks on June 23 for "Segmented OLED" (German, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,834, issued on June 23, was assigned to OLEDWorks LLC (Rochester, N.Y.).

"Segmented OLED" was invented by Michael Boroson (Pittsford, N.Y.), Jeffrey Spindler (Ontario, N.Y.), Jorg Knipping (Wegberg, Germany) and Manfred Ruske (Kerpen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An OLED device comprising an array of bottom-emitting OLED segments, each separated by a non-emitting gap, arranged on a common transparent substrate; wherein each OLED segment is defined by a transparent bottom electrode segment together with a top electrode and organic layers for light emission between the top electrode and bottom electrode segments; where each s...