ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,798, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to SOCPRA SCIENCES ET GENIE S.E.C. (Sherbrooke, Canada).

"Substrates for optoelectronic devices and methods of manufacturing same" was invented by Youcef Ataellah Bioud (Sherbrooke, Canada), Abderraouf Boucherif (Sherbrooke, Canada) and Richard Ares (Sherbrooke, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is described a method of manufacturing a substrate for an optoelectronic device. The method has the steps of: supporting a first layer of a first crystalline material on a second layer of a second crystalline material different from said first crystalline material thereby exposing crystalline def...