ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,411, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Epistar Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Semiconductor device, semiconductor component and display panel including the same" was invented by Min-Hsun Hsieh (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Yu-Tsu Lee (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Wei-Jen Hsueh (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a semiconductor device including a semiconductor structure, a first metal element-containing structure, and a layer. The semiconductor structure includes a first semiconductor layer having a first material, a second semiconductor layer, an active region between the first semiconductor layer and the seco...