US Patent Issued to Infineon Technologies on March 24 for "Phase change material switch device and related methods" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,744, issued on March 24, was assigned to Infineon Technologies AG (Neubiberg, Germany).

"Phase change material switch device and related methods" was invented by Valentyn Solomko (Munich), Dominik Heiss (Munich) and Semen Syroiezhin (Erlangen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A phase change material switch device is provided. The phase change material switch device includes a phase change material, a first electrode electrically coupled to the phase change material, and at least one heater thermally coupled to the phase change material. An equalization device is configured to provide an impedance coupling between the first ele...