ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,424, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to XIAMEN SAN'AN OPTOELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Xiamen, China).

"Light-emitting device and method for making the same" was invented by Lixun Yang (Xiamen, China), Jianfeng Yang (Xiamen, China), Kuowei Ho (Xiamen, China), Linrong Cai (Xiamen, China), Xiaoqiang Zeng (Xiamen, China) and Shaohua Huang (Xiamen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light-emitting device includes a number (N) (not smaller than two) of light-emitting units, a interconnect structure connecting the light-emitting units in series, first and second electrodes, and an auxiliary electrode structure. The light-emitting units each...