ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,316, issued on March 24, was assigned to Aledia (Echirolles, France).

"Optoelectronic device comprising three-dimensional semiconductor elements and method for manufacturing said device" was invented by Olga Kryliouk (Fort Myers, Fla.) and Jerome Napierala (Saint Egreve, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for manufacturing an optoelectronic device including forming, by metal-organic chemical vapor deposition, MOCVD, wire-shaped, conical, or frustoconical semiconductor elements made of a III-V compound, doped or undoped, each semiconductor element extending along an axis and including a top, and forming by remote plasma c...