US Patent Issued to GLOBALFOUNDRIES U.S. on June 23 for "Heater elements" (Vermont Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,961, issued on June 23, was assigned to GLOBALFOUNDRIES U.S. Inc. (Malta, N.Y.).

"Heater elements" was invented by Uppili S. Raghunathan (Essex Junction, Vt.), Vibhor Jain (Williston, Vt.), Yves T. Ngu (Williston, Vt.), Johnatan A. Kantarovsky (South Burlington, Vt.) and Sebastian T. Ventrone (South Burlington, Vt.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to semiconductor structures and, more particularly, to heater elements, methods of operation and methods of manufacture. The structure includes: an active device; a heater element under the active device and within a semiconductor substrate; and a contact to the...