ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,785, issued on March 17, was assigned to EPISTAR Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Optoelectronic device" was invented by Wei-Jen Hsueh (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Shih-Chang Lee (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chen Ou (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Po-Chou Pan (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Wen-Luh Liao (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optoelectronic device includes a substrate, a first semiconductor stack located on the substrate, a second semiconductor stack located on the first semiconductor stack, and a first optical structure located between the first semiconductor stack and the second semiconductor stack. The first semiconductor stack includes a first semico...