US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on July 14 for "Folded series switches" (American, Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,863, issued on July 14, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Folded series switches" was invented by Thomas Hua-Min Williams (Irvine, Calif.), Conor Roche (Cork, Ireland), Khaja Ahmad Shaik (San Diego), Hanil Lee (San Diego), Roger Lee Mills (Pflugerville, Texas) and Benjamin Griffitts (Santa Ana, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A chip includes a first active region, first gates extending over the first active region in a first direction, wherein the first gates correspond to a first transistor, and second gates extending over the first active region in the first direction, wherein the second gates correspond to a second...