US Patent Issued to Advanced Semiconductor Engineering on June 16 for "Optical device" (Taiwanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,660,360, issued on June 16, was assigned to Advanced Semiconductor Engineering Inc. (Kaohsiung, Taiwan).

"Optical device" was invented by Ying-Chung Chen (Kaohsiung, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical device includes an emitter, a receiver, a transparent element, and a block layer. The transparent element is disposed over the emitter and the receiver. The transparent element defines a recess between the emitter and the receiver. The block layer is conformally disposed over the transparent element and the recess."

The patent was filed on Dec. 30, 2022, under Application No. 18/092,142.

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