ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,733,190, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to NEXPERIA B.V. (Nijmegen, Netherlands).
"Transfer device for transferring an electronic component" was invented by Tim Bottcher (Hamburg, Germany), Sonke Habenicht (Hamburg, Germany) and Romain Esteve (Nijmegen, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vertical semiconductor component including: a substrate; an epitaxial layer doped with a first conductivity type, preferably n-doped, provided on the substrate; a metal layer deposited on the epitaxial layer to form a Schottky contact with the epitaxial layer; a plurality of first regions embedded in the epitaxial layer and contacting the meta...