US Patent Issued to EPISTAR, BREACH on July 21 for "Semiconductor device" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,175, issued on July 21, was assigned to EPISTAR Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and BREACH Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Semiconductor device" was invented by Hsin-Chan Chung (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Shou-Lung Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a first type semiconductor structure, semiconductor columnar bodies between the substrate and the first type semiconductor structure, a first electrode and a second electrode. The first type semiconductor structure includes a first surface, a second surface opposite the first surface and away from the substrate, a first extension and a second ext...