US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, KIA on July 14 for "Power semiconductor device and method for fabricating the same" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,842, issued on July 14, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Power semiconductor device and method for fabricating the same" was invented by Jong Seok Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power semiconductor device includes a semiconductor layer, a well region located inside the semiconductor layer and having a first conductivity type, a source region located on the well region and having a second conductivity type, a gate region in contact with a side surface of the well region and surrounding the well region, a drift region in contact with bottom surf...