ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,416, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to ALEDIA (Echirolles, France).

"Optoelectronic device with micrometric or nanometric light-emitting diode on which an optical lens is mounted" was invented by Olivier Jeannin (Grenoble, France) and Frederic Mayer (Voiron, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optoelectronic device includes at least one light-emitting diode having a three-dimensional shape having a height along a longitudinal axis and having a first longitudinal dimension measured along the longitudinal axis and at least a second transverse dimension corresponding to a dimension of the three-dimensional shape measured perpendi...