US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on July 14 for "Protection diode matrix for antenna protection" (New York, California, New Jersey, Vermont Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,876, issued on July 14, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Protection diode matrix for antenna protection" was invented by Huimei Zhou (Albany, N.Y.), Terence B. Hook (Jericho, Vt.), Yoo-Mi Lee (Montvale, N.J.), Feng Liu (Niskayuna, N.Y.) and Chen Zhang (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments are disclosed for a semiconductor structure. The semiconductor structure includes a first nanosheet layer. The first nanosheet layer includes a first channel region, and a heavily doped epitaxial region of a first type. Further, the semiconductor structure includes a second nanosheet la...