ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,040, issued on July 14, was assigned to NGK INSULATORS Ltd. (Nagoya, Japan).
"Group-III element nitride semiconductor substrate" was invented by Masahiro Sakai (Nagoya, Japan), Katsuhiro Imai (Nagoya, Japan) and Hiroki Kobayashi (Chiryu, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Group-III element nitride semiconductor substrate includes: a first surface; and a second surface, wherein warping of a crystal plane of the first surface has a plurality of extremes."
The patent was filed on Aug. 18, 2023, under Application No. 18/451,934.
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