ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,828, issued on March 3, was assigned to SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES LLC (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Method and system for fabricating regrown fiducials for semiconductor devices" was invented by Karthik Suresh Arulalan (Santa Clara, Calif.), Jianfeng Wang (Santa Clara, Calif.), Sharlene Wilson (Santa Clara, Calif.), Mark Curtice (Santa Clara, Calif.), Subhash Srinivas Pidaparthi (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Clifford Drowley (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of forming regrown fiducials includes providing a III-V compound substrate having a device region and an alignment mark region. The III-V compound substr...