US Patent Issued to Au Optronics on June 17 for "Optoelectronic tweezer device and fabrication method thereof" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,157, issued on June 17, was assigned to Au Optronics Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Optoelectronic tweezer device and fabrication method thereof" was invented by Shih-Hua Hsu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Wei-Han Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Ching-Wen Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Ying-Hui Lai (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optoelectronic tweezer device includes a transparent substrate, a semiconductor layer, a first electrode and a dielectric layer. The semiconductor layer is located above the transparent substrate and includes a first doping region, a second doping region and a transition region, wherein the transition region is locate...