ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,618, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Semiconductor switch device, manufacturing method thereof, and solid-state phase shifter" was invented by Yuantao Zhou (Shenzhen, China), Ming Wu (Shenzhen, China) and Pengyu Zhang (Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor switch device includes a first semiconductor layer, intrinsic layers, and second semiconductor layers that are stacked. There are at least two intrinsic layers. The second semiconductor layers are in a one-to-one correspondence with the intrinsic layers, and each second semiconductor layer is stacked on...