US Patent Issued to Qorvo US on July 14 for "Reconfigurable transistor device" (California, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,783, issued on July 14, was assigned to Qorvo US Inc. (Greensboro, N.C.).

"Reconfigurable transistor device" was invented by Kevin Wesley Kobayashi (Redondo Beach, Calif.) and Julio C. Costa (Oak Ridge, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a reconfigurable transistor device having a substrate, a plurality of first transistor fingers disposed in a first region over the substrate, and a phase change switch (PCS) having a patch of a phase change material (PCM) disposed over the substrate in a second region to selectively couple a first set of the plurality of first transistor fingers to a bus, wherein the patch of the PCM is...