ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,514,036, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to XIAMEN SAN'AN OPTOELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Xiamen, China).

"Light emitting device and light emitting apparatus having the same" was invented by Ming-Chun Tseng (Xiamen, China), Kang-Wei Peng (Xiamen, China), Su-Hui Lin (Xiamen, China) and Chung-Ying Chang (Xiamen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light emitting device includes a semiconductor stack, and an insulating layer partially covering the semiconductor stack. The semiconductor stack includes a first conductivity type semiconductor layer, a light emitting layer and a second conductivity type semiconductor layer that are stacked in sequ...