ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,789, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"LED filament comprising LEDs arranged to emit NIR light" was invented by Ties Van Bommel (Horst, Netherlands) and Rifat Ata Mustafa Hikmet (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a light emitting diode, LED, filament, configured to emit LED filament light. The LED filament comprises a carrier, and an array of a plurality of light emitting diodes, LEDs, arranged on the carrier. The LED filament comprises an encapsulant at least partially enclosing the array and at least partially enclosing the carrier. Each LED of t...