ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,664, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to GLOBALFOUNDRIES U.S. Inc. (Malta, N.Y.).
"Built-in temperature sensors" was invented by Zhixing Zhao (Dresden, Germany) and Yiching Chen (Santa Clara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to semiconductor structures and, more particularly, to built-in temperature sensors and methods of manufacture and operation. The structure includes: a semiconductor on insulator substrate; an insulator layer under the semiconductor on the insulator substrate; a handle substrate under insulator layer; a first well of a first dopant type in the handle substrate; a second well of ...