ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,586, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Vertical diodes extending through support structures" was invented by Richard Geiger (Munich), Georgios Panagopoulos (Munich), Johannes Xaver Rauh (Kirchseeon, Germany) and Harald Gossner (Riemerling, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are IC devices, packages, and device assemblies that include diodes arranged so that their first and second terminals may be contacted from the opposite faces of a support structure. Such diodes are referred to herein as "vertical diodes" to reflect the fact that the diode extends, in a vertical direction (...