ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,616, issued on March 18, was assigned to Dupont Toray Specialty Materials K.K. (Tokyo) and DuPont Specialty Materials Korea Ltd. (Chenonan-si, South Korea).

"Curable silicone composition, encapsulant and optical semiconductor device" was invented by Sawako Horie (Chiba, Japan), Kasumi Takeuchi (Chiba, Japan), Shunya Takeuchi (Chiba, Japan), Hyunji Kang (Gyeonggi-Do, South Korea) and Akihiko Kobayashi (Chiba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Curable silicone compositions, encapsulants including the same, and optical semiconductor devices including the encapsulants are provided herein. In an embodiment, a curable silicone composit...