ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,813, issued on April 7, was assigned to Littelfuse Semiconductor (Wuxi) Co. Ltd. (Wuxi, China).

"TVS with enhanced repetitive surge performance" was invented by Lei Shi (Wuxi, China), Jifeng Zhou (Wuxi, China) and Xingchong Gu (Wuxi, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transient voltage suppression (TVS) device. The TVS device may include a substrate, comprising a polarity of a first type. The TVS device may further include a first dopant layer, disposed on a first surface of the substrate, the first layer comprising a polarity of a second type, wherein the first dopant layer forms a P/N junction with the substrate. The TVS device...