ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,441, issued on July 29, was assigned to Lextar Electronics Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Light-emitting element" was invented by Shiou-Yi Kuo (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Te-Chung Wang (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light-emitting element includes a first reflection layer, a second reflection layer, a multi-layer light-emitting structure, and a light-transmitting semiconductor layer. The first reflection layer has a first reflectance, and the second reflection layer has a second reflectance greater than the first reflectance. The multi-layer light-emitting structure is between the first reflection layer and the second reflect...