ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,412, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to EPISTAR Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Semiconductor light emitting device and method of fabricating the same" was invented by Hsin-Chih Chiu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chih-Chiang Lu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chun-Yu Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Ching-Huai Ni (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Yi-Ming Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Tzu-Chieh Hsu (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Ching-Pei Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor light-emitting device comprises a substrate; a first adhesive layer on the substrate; multiple epitaxial units on the first adhesive layer; a second adhesive layer on the multiple epitaxial units; mult...