ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,710,604, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Advanced Semiconductor Engineering Inc. (Kaohsiung, Taiwan).

"Optoelectronic device" was invented by Jr-Wei Lin (Kaohsiung, Taiwan), Sin-Yuan Mu (Kaohsiung, Taiwan) and Chia-Sheng Cheng (Kaohsiung, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optoelectronic device includes a photonic component. The photonic component includes an active side, a second side different from the active side, and an optical channel extending from the active side to the second side of the photonic component. The optical channel includes a non-gaseous material configured to transmit light."

The patent was filed on Jan. 9,...