ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,039, issued on May 6, was assigned to OSRAM Opto Semiconductors GmbH (Regensburg, Germany).

"Optoelectronic component, semiconductor structure and method" was invented by Andreas Biebersdorf (Regensburg, Germany), Stefan Illek (Donaustauf, Germany), Felix Feix (Jena, Germany), Christoph Klemp (Regensburg, Germany), Ines Pietzonka (Donaustauf, Germany), Petrus Sundgren (Lappersdorf, Germany), Christian Berger (Marburg, Germany) and Ana Kanevce (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor structure comprises an n-doped first layer, a p-doped second layer doped with a first dopant, and an active layer disposed betw...