US Patent Issued to GLOBALFOUNDRIES U.S. on April 14 for "Silicon controlled rectifiers" (Singaporean, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,532, issued on April 14, was assigned to GLOBALFOUNDRIES U.S. Inc. (Malta, N.Y.).

"Silicon controlled rectifiers" was invented by Anindya Nath (Essex Junction, Vt.), Rajendran Krishnasamy (Essex Junction, Vt.), Souvick Mitra (Essex Junction, Vt.), Steven M. Shank (Jericho, Vt.) and Sagar P. Karalkar (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to semiconductor structures and, more particularly, to silicon control rectifiers and methods of manufacture. A structure includes: a first well in a semiconductor substrate; a second well in the semiconductor substrate, adjacent to the first well; a plurality of sh...