Patents Assigned to Lumileds LLC
  • Patent number: 12777970
    Abstract: A mobile device contains an integrated structure (e.g., a semiconductor structure) that includes an LED matrix with one or more LED arrays and sensors on at least opposing edges of the LED matrix. Each LED array has LEDs that are separated by non-emitting areas and the LEDs are independently driven to provide light. The light is converted to white light using a phosphor disposed on the LEDs. The sensors detect ambient light or flicker. The semiconductor structure is attached to a semiconductor driver via conductive pillars and underfill between the conductive pillars. The driver is coupled to a PCB. The PCB is electrically coupled to the semiconductor structure via PCB contacts and LED contacts to drive the LEDs dependent on the ambient light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2026
    Assignee: Lumileds LLC
    Inventors: Arjen Gerben Van der Sijde, Nicola Bettina Pfeffer, Pieter Johannes Quintus van Voorst Vader
  • Patent number: 12753887
    Abstract: An LED light source comprises a hollow pedestal comprising side walls having reflective interior surfaces that define sides of an internal cavity. An LED mounting surface is disposed within the cavity, with one or more LEDs disposed on the LED mounting surface. A light transmitting optical element is disposed opposite from the mounting surface, spaced apart from the one or more LEDs, and supported by the pedestal side walls. The LED light source provides a narrowed radiation pattern that may, for example, be advantageously employed for backlighting LCOS and other displays.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2024
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2026
    Assignee: LUMILEDS LLC
    Inventors: Walter Daeschner, Yu-Chen Shen, Grigoriy Basin
  • Patent number: 12757540
    Abstract: A compact LED package has a segmented semiconductor structure that may emit light and at least two wavelength converting structures absorbing the emitted light to emit their own light. One of the wavelength converting structures may emit infrared (IR) or near-infrared (NIR) light, e.g., for IR sensing functions, while the other may emit visible light. The wavelength converting structures may be ceramic platelets coupled to each other. The segments of the semiconductor structure may be individually addressable, and the segmented semiconductor structure may allow for a reduction of package size compared to conventional LED packages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2026
    Assignee: LUMILEDS LLC
    Inventors: Florent Monestier, Peter Josef Schmidt
  • Publication number: 20260282614
    Abstract: A red LED includes a semiconductor LED layer having an active InGaN layer with intrinsic emission spectrum having LDom in a range of from 580 nm to 620 nm. A filter is positioned over the semiconductor LED layer to filter shorter wavelengths of the intrinsic emission spectrum and shift LDom by between 5 nm to 20 nm to a longer wavelength.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2026
    Publication date: September 17, 2026
    Applicant: Lumileds LLC
    Inventors: Robert Armitage, Isaac Wildeson
  • Publication number: 20260269493
    Abstract: A surface mount electrical connector comprises a housing comprising at least first and second elongate housing portions. Each elongate housing portion extends longitudinally from a first end of the housing to an opposing second end of the housing. The first elongate housing portion comprises an opening at the first end of the housing and a wall portion at the second end of the housing. The second elongate housing portion comprises an opening at the opposing second end of the housing, and a wall portion at the first end of the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2023
    Publication date: September 10, 2026
    Applicant: Lumileds LLC
    Inventor: Luca Mucchetti
  • Patent number: 12733316
    Abstract: A light-emitting device includes red InGaN-based LED(s), green III-nitride-based LED(s), and blue III-nitride-based LED(s), which respectively emit red emitted light, green emitted light, and blue emitted light. Spectrally selective optical element(s), on which at least the red emitted light is incident, result in red output light having a red output color point, green output light having a green output color point, and blue output light having a blue output color point. The red, green, and blue output color points define a color gamut that encompasses at least an sRGB color gamut, in some examples even when corresponding color points of the red, green, and blue emitted light do not.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2026
    Assignee: LUMILEDS LLC
    Inventors: Mark James Holmes, Robert Armitage
  • Patent number: 12732277
    Abstract: A microlight emitting diode (LED) system and method of transmitting data are disclosed. The system includes either a first array that contains multiple subarrays or a second array. Each subarray includes multiple independently-addressable single color microLEDs that emit light of different colors and are independently modulated for data communication to another microLED array. The second array contains at least one independently-addressable polychromic microLED. Each polychromic microLED has multiple independently-addressable active regions that emit different colors and that are independently modulated for data transmission to the other microLED array. A photodetector array receives data as multi-color light from the other microLED array and has multiple photodetectors each tuned for a specific color.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2024
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2026
    Assignee: Lumileds LLC
    Inventors: Mark James Holmes, Brendan Jude Moran, Johannes Willem Herman Sillevis Smitt, Luke Gordon, Yu-Chen Shen
  • Publication number: 20260262332
    Abstract: A light emitting diode (LED) device sapphire substrate removal apparatus and method are disclosed. The method includes placing the LED device comprising a sapphire substrate and a carrier onto a holding plate sized and shaped to hold the carrier of the LED device and applying a twisting force to the sapphire substrate to separate the sapphire substrate from the carrier. The apparatus includes the holding plate and a sapphire substrate removal tool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2023
    Publication date: September 3, 2026
    Applicant: Lumileds LLC
    Inventors: Joyce Chan Li Kin, Chee Chung James Wong, Yeow Meng Teo
  • Publication number: 20260262333
    Abstract: A light emitting diode (LED) device sapphire substrate removal apparatus and method are disclosed. The apparatus and method includes placing the LED device comprising a sapphire substrate and a carrier onto holding stage sized and shaped to hold the carrier of an LED device and applying suction cups to the sapphire substrate to separate the sapphire substrate from the carrier. The apparatus include the holding stage and a sapphire substrate suction device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2023
    Publication date: September 3, 2026
    Applicant: Lumileds LLC
    Inventors: Joyce Chan Li Kin, Chee Chung James Wong, Yeow Meng Teo
  • Publication number: 20260239785
    Abstract: A light source including an LED may be tuned to increase or decrease color uniformity throughout the device, such as at an edge of the light source, and/or improve contrast with less lumen loss. Tuning may include spectral tuning such as modification of the optical barrier and/or side coat surrounding the LED. The modification may include one or more of a dye, scattering particles, or luminescent material. The spectral tuning may increase output of light of a certain wavelength while decreasing output of light of another wavelength, due to increased reflection or emission of the former and increased absorption of the latter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2025
    Publication date: August 13, 2026
    Applicant: LUMILEDS LLC
    Inventors: Jeff DiMaria, Yu-Chen Shen, Grigoriy Basin, Antonio Lopez-Julia, Marcel Rene Bohmer, Florent Monestier, Wouter Soer
  • Publication number: 20260215041
    Abstract: Light emitting diode (LED) arrays and dies and devices herein comprise: a plurality of pixels in electrical communication including a cathode per pixel and a common composite anode. Each pixel communicates to the common anode by a p-metal plug in a p-via, a p-metal layer, and p-contact materials.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2023
    Publication date: July 23, 2026
    Applicant: Lumileds LLC
    Inventors: Toni Lopez, Erik William Young
  • Publication number: 20260215042
    Abstract: A lighting device and method of manufacturing a lighting device that improves the efficiency of converting light output by a light emitting diode (LED) to near-infrared light (NIR). To improve the efficiency, light emitted by the LED passes through a first phosphor layer that emits NIR light, and then the light passes through a second phosphor layer that absorbs light not absorbed by the first layer to generate additional light. In some instances, the additional light is in the visible spectrum.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2024
    Publication date: July 23, 2026
    Applicant: LUMILEDS LLC
    Inventors: Peter Josef SCHMIDT, Thomas DIEDERICH, Oleg Borisovich SHCHEKIN, James David TARNE
  • Publication number: 20260210522
    Abstract: Lighting modules combining top-contact LEDs and surface mount LEDs are described. The top-contact LEDs are mounted directly to a heat sink and are electrically connected by ultrasonically bonded conductors to a PCB containing the surface mount LEDs. The modules may also comprise a lens assembly configured to combine light emitted by the top contact LEDs and the surface mount LEDs into a composite beam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2023
    Publication date: July 23, 2026
    Applicant: Lumileds LLC
    Inventors: Joseph Hendrik Anna Maria Jacobs, Marc Droegeler
  • Publication number: 20260215062
    Abstract: A micro-light emitting diode (uLED) comprises: a pixel defined by a mesa of semiconductor layers having a sidewall, the mesa including an n-type layer, an active region, and a p-type layer; a first dielectric material surrounding the sidewall of the pixel; a current spreading layer in contact with one or more n-contact materials and the n-type layer; an optical layer disposed on the current spreading layer, the optical layer comprising: an optical segment opposite the n-type layer and the first dielectric material, the optical segment comprising a second dielectric material, and a reflective sidewall adjacent to the optical segment and opposite portions of the one or more n-contact materials; and an anode in contact with the p-type layer. MicroLED dies and devices comprising the uLEDs and method of making the same are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2023
    Publication date: July 23, 2026
    Applicant: Lumileds LLC
    Inventors: Xavier Garcia Santiago, Toni Lopez, Joseph Flemish
  • Publication number: 20260206112
    Abstract: A method for controlling light sources of a lighting system includes initializing a measurement device for measuring information in the lighting system. Photometric data is recorded at a first location, and the measurement records photometric data at a second location. Target illuminance in the system is set at the first and second locations, and flux values for lighting elements of the lighting system are calculated. Control parameters are transmitted based upon the flux for adjustment of the elements in the lighting system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2023
    Publication date: July 16, 2026
    Applicant: LUMILEDS LLC
    Inventors: Wouter Anthon SOER, Johannes Willem Herman Sillevis-Smitt, Rob Jacques Paul Engelen, Mehdi Aas
  • Publication number: 20260202027
    Abstract: LED devices and methods of operating them are described. An LED lighting device includes a substrate (702), a white LED (402) on the substrate at a location configured for alignment with an optical axis of an automotive lamp when installed, and a near ultraviolet LED (404) on the substrate at a location spaced apart from the white LED by an amount such that the near ultraviolet LED is defocused from the optical axis of the automotive lamp when installed such that the near ultraviolet LED emits energy in the near ultraviolet band in a larger area than the white LED when powered on.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2024
    Publication date: July 16, 2026
    Applicant: LUMILEDS LLC
    Inventor: Ralph BERTRAM
  • Publication number: 20260206365
    Abstract: Provided is a tunnel junction based RGB die and driving scheme. The ?LED die of one or more embodiments advantageously requires three plated metals and one common cathode per red-green-blue (RGB) pixel group. Additionally, the ?LED die of one or more embodiments allows for better control of emission color than in known RGB technologies. A red pixel, a green pixel, and a blue pixel are grown sequentially on the same epitaxial wafer. A driving scheme is provided that includes a single current source per RGB pixel. This is enabled by way of using PWM switches and a proper selection of the active region area per active region color.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2023
    Publication date: July 16, 2026
    Applicant: Lumileds LLC
    Inventor: Toni Lopez
  • Publication number: 20260206367
    Abstract: A micro-light emitting diode (uLED) comprises: a pixel defined by a mesa of semiconductor layers having sidewall, the mesa including an n-type layer, an active region, and a p-type layer; a patterned feature in the mesa defined by an absence of an epitaxial material from the mesa; a first dielectric material surrounding the sidewall of the pixel; one or more n-contact materials and a common cathode in electrical contact with the n-type layer; and an anode in contact with the p-type layer. MicroLED dies and devices comprising the uLEDs and method of making the same are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2023
    Publication date: July 16, 2026
    Applicant: LUMILEDS LLC
    Inventors: Toni Lopez, Xavier Garcia Santiago
  • Publication number: 20260206397
    Abstract: A micro-light emitting diode (uLED) comprises: a pixel defined by a mesa of semiconductor layers having a sidewall, the mesa including an n-type layer, an active region, and a p-type layer, a first dielectric material surrounding the sidewall of the pixel; a current spreading layer in contact with one or more n-contact materials and the n-type layer; an optical coating disposed on the current spreading layer, the optical coating comprising a second dielectric material; and an anode in contact with the p-type layer. MicroLED dies and devices comprising the uLEDs and method of making the same are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2023
    Publication date: July 16, 2026
    Applicant: Lumileds LLC
    Inventors: Xavier Garcia Santiago, Toni Lopez, Joseph Flemish
  • Patent number: 12684929
    Abstract: A lighting system and method of driving an array of micro light emitter (microLED) pixels are disclosed. Each pixel contains a blue sub-pixel configured to emit blue light, a red sub-pixel configured to emit red light, a green sub-pixel configured to emit green light, and a yellow sub-pixel configured to emit yellow light. A processor selects, for each pixel to produce white light, between driving the blue sub-pixel and yellow sub-pixel to produce the white light and driving the blue sub-pixel, the red sub-pixel, the green sub-pixel, and the yellow sub-pixel to produce the white light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2026
    Assignee: Lumileds LLC
    Inventors: Johannes Willem Herman Sillevis Smitt, Brendan Jude Moran, Zhongmin Ren