ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,351, issued on May 20, was assigned to AU OPTRONICS Corp. (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan).

"Light emitting diode component and light emitting diode circuit comprising p-n diodes in series" was invented by June-Woo Lee (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan), Yang-En Wu (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan), Sung-Yu Su (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan), Hsien-Chun Wang (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan), Ya-Jung Wang (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan), Chia-Ting Hsieh (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan), Chien-Fu Huang (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan) and Hsin-Ying Lin (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a light emitting diode component, including a body and a plurality of P-N diode structures. The P-N diode structures...