US Patent Issued to Infineon Technologies on Sept. 8 for "Semiconductor device having macro cells" (Austrian, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,733,224, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Infineon Technologies AG (Neubiberg, Germany).

"Semiconductor device having macro cells" was invented by Antonio Vellei (Villach, Austria) and Stefan Tophinke (Paderborn, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a transistor having macro cells. A plurality of the macro cells include a first macro cell and a second macro cell. Each first and second macro cell includes trenches formed in a first main surface of a semiconductor substrate. The trenches pattern the semiconductor substrate into mesas and include a conductive trench, with a conductive material in the cond...