ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,290, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to ENNOSTAR Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Light-emitting device having structured electrode pad, backlight unit and display apparatus having the same" was invented by Hsin-Ying Wang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Hui-Chun Yeh (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Jhih-Yong Yang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chen Ou (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Cheng-Lin Lu (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light-emitting device includes a substrate, a semiconductor stack formed on the substrate, a conductive structure, first and second contact electrodes, an insulating stack, and first and second electrode pads. The second electrode pad is disposed i...