ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,359, issued on May 20, was assigned to OSRAM Opto Semiconductors GmbH (Regensburg, Germany).

"Optoelectronic component and method for producing the same" was invented by Andreas Dobner (Wenzenbach, Germany), Andreas Waldschik (Wolmirstedt, Germany) and Matthias Goldbach (Pentling, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optoelectronic component includes at least one optoelectronic semiconductor chip with a main surface on which two electrical contacts are arranged. The optoelectronic component also includes a control chip for controlling the optoelectronic semiconductor chip with a plurality of electrical connection pads. The optoe...