ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,636, issued on March 3, was assigned to GREE ELECTRIC APPLIANCES INC. OF ZHUHAI (Zhuhai, China).

"MPS diode device and preparation method therefor" was invented by Yiren Lin (Zhuhai, China), Daokun Chen (Zhuhai, China), Dan Zeng (Zhuhai, China) and Bo Shi (Zhuhai, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are an MPS diode device and a preparation method therefor. The MPS diode device comprises a plurality of cells arranged in parallel, wherein each cell comprises a cathode electrode, and a substrate, epitaxial layer, buffer layer, and anode electrode that are formed in succession on the cathode electrode; two active regions are ...