ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,929, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"PCM device" was invented by Chang-Chih Huang (Taichung, Taiwan), Han-Yu Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Yu-Sheng Chen (Taoyuan, Taiwan) and Kuo-Chyuan Tzeng (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various embodiments, an improved structure for a PCM device is provided. The improved structure is configured to help prevent heat dissipation. In one example, the PCM device is an PCM RF Switch, which has a substrate, a heater, a dielectric/insulator layer, oxidation layers, electrodes, a PCM region, and/or any other components. The oxi...