US Patent Issued to SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES on Feb. 24 for "Semiconductor devices and methods of manufacturing semiconductor devices" (Arizona, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,840, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES LLC (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Semiconductor devices and methods of manufacturing semiconductor devices" was invented by Steven M. Etter (Phoenix) and Yupeng Chen (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an example, a semiconductor device includes a first steering diode and a second steering diode at a top side of a region of semiconductor material, a first Zener diode buried within the region of semiconductor material, and a second Zener diode at a bottom side of the region of semiconductor material. The semiconductor device is configured as a bi-direc...