ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,239, issued on March 24, was assigned to SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES LLC (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Method and system for routing of electrical conductors over neutralized power FETS" was invented by Clifford Drowley (Santa Clara, Calif.), Andrew J. Walker (Santa Clara, Calif.), Andrew P. Edwards (Santa Clara, Calif.), Subhash Srinivas Pidaparthi (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Thomas E. Kopley (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vertical, FinFET device includes an array of FinFETs comprising a plurality of rows and columns of fins. Each of the fins has a fin length and a fin width, a first fin tip, a second fin tip, ...