ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,224, issued on April 15, was assigned to COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES (Paris) and CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE (Paris).

"Method for producing nitride mesas each intended to form an electronic or optoelectronic device" was invented by Guy Feuillet (Grenoble, France), Blandine Alloing (Valbonne, France), Hubert Bono (Grenoble, France), Roy Dagher (Grenoble, France), Jesus Zuniga Perez (Biot, France), Matthew Charles (Grenoble, France), Julien Buckley (Grenoble, France) and Rene Escoffier (Grenoble, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for obtaining mesas that are made at least ...