US Patent Issued to DIODES on Sept. 1 for "Semiconductor rectifier" (Taiwanese, British, Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,178, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to DIODES Inc. (Plano, Texas).

"Semiconductor rectifier" was invented by Tao Long (Shanghai), Ze Rui Chen (Plano, Texas), Pin-Hao Huang (New Taipei City, Taiwan), Paul Keith Gurry (Chadderton, Great Britain) and Li-Hsien Chou (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor rectifier device comprises: an epitaxial layer having a top surface and a bottom surface; a first trench comprising a first side wall, a second side wall, and a first bottom surface; a second trench adjacent to the first trench, the second trench comprising a third side wall, a fourth side wall, and a sec...