ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,691, issued on May 13, was assigned to OTI Lumionics Inc. (Mississauga, Canada).

"Opto-electronic device including an auxiliary electrode and a partition" was invented by Zhibin Wang (Toronto), Yi-Lu Chang (Scarborough, Canada) and Qi Wang (North York, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An opto-electronic device having a plurality of layers, comprising a nucleation-inhibiting coating (MC) disposed on a first layer surface in a first portion of a lateral aspect thereof. In the first portion, the device comprises a first electrode, a second electrode and a semiconducting layer between them. The second electrode lies between the NIC ...