ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,762, issued on July 8, was assigned to OSRAM Opto Semiconductors GmbH (Regensburg, Germany).

"Optoelectronic component and method for producing an optoelectronic component" was invented by Michael Binder (Barbing, Germany), Andreas Ruckerl (Konzell, Germany) and Roland Zeisel (Tegernheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optoelectronic component may include a support and multiple optoelectronic semiconductor chips that can be actuated individually and independently of one another. Each semiconductor chip may include a semiconductor layer sequence. Each semiconductor chip may have an electrically insulating passivation layer o...