ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,581, issued on July 28, was assigned to Plessey Semiconductors Ltd (Plymouth, Great Britain).

"High resolution monolithic RGB arrays" was invented by Andrea Pinos (Plymouth, Great Britain), Simon Ashton (Plymouth, Great Britain), Xiang Yu (Plymouth, Great Britain) and Jonathan Shipp (Plymouth, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light emitting diode structure comprising a p-type region an n-type region; and a light emitting region for recombination of carriers injectable by the p-type region and the n-type region, wherein at least one of the n-type region and the p-type region is at least partially formed in a via passing ...