ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,863, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Ind.).

"Light emitting device and method of making the same" was invented by Tillmann Kubis (West Lafayette, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light emitting device includes a first light emitting diode (LED). The first LED includes a first metallic layer. The first LED additionally includes a first-doped semiconductor layer over the first metallic layer. Additionally, the first LED includes a multi quantum well (MQW) semiconductor layer over the first-doped semiconductor layer. Moreover, the first LED includes a second-doped semiconductor layer o...