ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,395, issued on July 29, was assigned to VISERA TECHNOLOGIES COMPANY Ltd. (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan).

"Optical devices" was invented by Shin-Hong Kuo (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan), Han-Lin Wu (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan), Ta-Yung Ni (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan), Ching-Chiang Wu (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan), Zong-Ru Tu (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan), Yu-Chi Chang (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan) and Hung-Jen Tsai (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical device is provided. The optical device includes a substrate and a plurality of optical structures. The substrate includes a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements. The optical structures are disposed above the substrate. Each optical...