Patent ID: 8716725

Claim:
A lighting apparatus comprising: a substrate having: a plurality of electrically insulating base layers; a plurality of external electrical contacts disposed on an exterior surface of the substrate; a plurality of top-side pads including a plurality of light device pads and a plurality of auxiliary electrical bond pads, each light device bond pad being sized and positioned to accommodate a light device, each auxiliary electrical bond pad being sized and positioned to accommodate a wire bond; and a plurality of electrical paths connecting at least some of the top-side pads to the external electrical contacts, wherein at least a portion of the plurality of electrical paths is disposed between the electrically insulating base layers; and a plurality of light devices, each light device disposed on one of the light device pads, at least one of the light devices being connected via a wire bond to one of the auxiliary electrical contacts, wherein the light devices are connected by the plurality of electrical paths in a plurality of independently addressable groups.