ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,521, issued on May 13, was assigned to Aledia (Echirolles, France).
"Method for protecting an optoelectronic device against electrostatic discharges" was invented by Frederic Mayer (Voiron, France), Frederic Mercier (Saint Nicolas de Macherin, France), Ivan-Christophe Robin (Grenoble, France) and Xavier Hugon (Teche, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of protecting optoelectronic devices against electrostatic discharges, each optoelectronic device comprising an optoelectronic circuit comprising at least one optoelectronic component from among a light-emitting diode or a photodiode. The method comprises forming a first waf...