ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,921, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to OSRAM Opto Semiconductors GmbH (Regensburg, Germany).

"Optoelectronic semiconductor component and method for producing an optoelectronic semiconductor component" was invented by Fabian Knorr (Postbauer-Heng, Germany), Tony Albrecht (Bad Abbach, Germany) and Markus Boss (Regensburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment, the optoelectronic semiconductor device comprises an optoelectronic semiconductor chip for emitting a radiation. An optical element is disposed downstream of the semiconductor chip. The semiconductor chip and the optical element are embedded in a potting body. ...