ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,708,053, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Adeia Semiconductor Technologies LLC (San Jose, Calif.).

"Direct-bonded optoelectronic devices" was invented by Min Tao (San Jose, Calif.), Liang Wang (Milpitas, Calif.), Rajesh Katkar (Milpitas, Calif.) and Cyprian Emeka Uzoh (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Direct-bonded LED arrays and applications are provided. An example process fabricates a LED structure that includes coplanar electrical contacts for p-type and n-type semiconductors of the LED structure on a flat bonding interface surface of the LED structure. The coplanar electrical contacts of the flat bonding interface s...