ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,689, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Celestial AI Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Optoelectronic device and method of manufacture thereof" was invented by Hua Yang (Cork, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of fabricating an optoelectronic component, performed on a multi-layered wafer disposed on a substrate. The method comprises the steps of: etching the multi-layered wafer, thereby defining a slab and a multi-layered ridge, the slab having an upper surface below the ridge and being located between the multi-layered ridge and the substrate; selectively epitaxially growing a III-V semiconductor cladding adjacent to a fi...