ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,893, issued on July 14, was assigned to GLOBALFOUNDRIES DRESDEN MODULE ONE LLC & Co. KG (Dresden, Germany).

"Reflective semiconductor device with mirror elements having two oxide layers over aluminum layer, and related method" was invented by Thorsten E. Kammler (Dresden, Germany), Robert Viktor Seidel (Dresden, Germany), Michael Grillberger (Radebeul, Germany), Oliver Witnik (Dresden, Germany), Nicole Brach (Dresden, Germany) and Raghav Shankar Uma Sankar (Dresden, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reflective semiconductor device includes an integrated circuit (IC) structure, and a pair of mirror elements over the IC structur...