ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,422, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to OSRAM Opto Semiconductors GmbH (Regensburg, Germany).

"Optoelectronic device and method for producing an optoelectronic device" was invented by Hermann Nuss (Regensburg, Germany), Andreas Dobner (Wenzenbach, Germany), Bjoern Hoxhold (Sinzing Viehhausen, Germany), Andreas Waldschik (Wolmirstedt, Germany), Erwin Beer (Pielenhofen, Germany), Bernd Boehm (Obertraubling, Germany), Ludwig Hofbauer (Regenstauf, Germany), Stefan Merl (Schwandorf, Germany), Stefan Rass (Regensburg, Germany) and Matthias Stark (Bad Abbach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment an optoelectronic device i...