ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,801, issued on March 3, was assigned to Newport Fab LLC (Newport Beach, Calif.).
"Body-source-tied transistor" was invented by Allan K Calvo (Tustin, Calif.), Paul D Hurwitz (Irvine, Calif.) and Roda Kanawati (Irvine, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor-on-insulator (SOI) transistor includes a semiconductor layer situated over a buried oxide layer, the buried oxide layer being situated over a substrate. The SOI transistor is situated in the semiconductor layer and includes a transistor body, gate fingers, source regions, and drain regions. The transistor body has a first conductivity type. The source regions and the...