ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,799, issued on April 7, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"High voltage finger layout transistor" was invented by Jungwoo Joh (Allen, Texas), Sunglyong Kim (Allen, Texas), Seetharaman Sridhar (Richardson, Texas), Sameer Pendharkar (Allen, Texas), James Craig Ondrusek (Richardson, Texas) and Srikanth Krishnan (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit, including a source region, a drain region, a channel region between the source region and the drain region, and a gate for inducing a conductive path through the channel region. The integrated circuit also includes structure, proximate a curved len...