ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,808, issued on April 7, was assigned to AMS-OSRAM INTERNATIONAL GMBH (Regensburg, Germany).
"Compact optoelectronic transmitter and receiver device" was invented by Dirk Becker (Langquaid, Germany), Norwin von Malm (Thumhausen/Nittendorf, Germany), Tim Boescke (Regensburg, Germany), Alvaro Gomez-Iglesias (Regensburg, Germany), Martin Hetzl (Painten, Germany), Horst Varga (Lappersdorf, Germany) and Tansen Varghese (Regensburg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to an optoelectronic device including a transmitter designed to emit electromagnetic radiation and to be operated with an input voltage, and a receive...