US Patent Issued to Infineon Technologies Austria on April 7 for "Diode including a trench electrode subdivided into at least first and second parts" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,761, issued on April 7, was assigned to Infineon Technologies Austria AG (Villach, Austria).

"Diode including a trench electrode subdivided into at least first and second parts" was invented by Christian Philipp Sandow (Haar, Germany), Matteo Dainese (Munich) and Viktoryia Lapidus (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A diode is proposed. The diode includes: a semiconductor body having opposing first and second main surfaces; an anode region and a cathode region, the anode region being arranged between the first main surface and the cathode region; an anode pad area electrically connected to the anode region; and trenches extending ...