US Patent Issued to Plessey Semiconductors on July 14 for "LED precursor" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,921, issued on July 14, was assigned to Plessey Semiconductors Ltd. (Plymouth, Great Britain).

"LED precursor" was invented by Andrea Pinos (Plymouth, Great Britain), Wei Sin Tan (Plymouth, Great Britain), Jun Youn Kim (Plymouth, Great Britain), Xiang Yu (Plymouth, Great Britain), Simon Ashton (Plymouth, Great Britain) and Samir Mezouari (Plymouth, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of manufacturing a LED precursor and a LED precursor is provided. The LED precursor is manufactured by forming a monolithic growth stack having a growth surface and forming a monolithic LED stack on the growth surface. The monolithic gr...