US Patent Issued to OSRAM Opto Semiconductors on July 1 for "Optoelectronic component and method for producing an optoelectronic component" (German, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,000, issued on July 1, was assigned to OSRAM Opto Semiconductors GmbH (Regensburg, Germany).

"Optoelectronic component and method for producing an optoelectronic component" was invented by Sven Gerhard (Alteglofsheim, Germany), Andre Somers (Obertraubling, Germany), Harald Konig (Bernhardswald, Germany) and Muhammad Ali (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an optoelectronic component comprising: an optoelectronic semiconductor chip which generates electromagnetic radiation during operation, and a metallic layer provided on the semiconductor chip, wherein an outer surface of the metallic layer has a pat...