ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,599, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to ams-OSRAM International GmbH (Regensburg, Germany).

"Optoelectronic apparatus" was invented by Massimo Cataldo Mazzillo (Hamburg, Germany), Faina Esser (Regensburg, Germany), Claus Jaeger (Regensburg, Germany) and Tim Boescke (Regensburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment an optoelectronic apparatus includes a light detector having a bottom side, an upper side and at least one sidewall that extends between the upper side and the bottom side, a carrier having an upper surface on which the light detector is arranged such that the bottom side faces the carrier, at least one o...