ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,727, issued on March 18, was assigned to Unimicron Technology Corp. (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

"Electronic device" was invented by Chun-Hung Kuo (Taoyuan, Taiwan) and Tzu-Hsuan Wang (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device including a light-emitting element, an IC chip, a substrate, an optical waveguide layer, and an optical signal outlet is provided. The IC chip is configured to control the light-emitting element to emit an optical signal. The light-emitting element is disposed on a first surface of the substrate, and the IC chip is disposed on a second surface of the substrate. The optical waveguide layer is di...