Osram buys Digital Lumens

Osram has announced the acquisition of Boston-based Digital Lumens — a company started in 2008 focused on connected solid-state lighting (SSL) systems and the use of autonomous and programmatic controls to further energy efficiency beyond the baseline savings attributable to efficient LED sources. Cree has announced financial results for Q4 of its 2017 fiscal year (FY), and sales are down year over year, although the report foreshadows a potential positive trend quarter over quarter. In the patent and intellectual property (IP) space, Apple won a patent covering micro-LED technology.