US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on Aug. 25 for "Semiconductor protection devices with high area efficiency" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,871, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Semiconductor protection devices with high area efficiency" was invented by Krishna Praveen Mysore Rajagopal (Manteca, Calif.), James Di Sarro (Allen, Texas), Yang Xiu (Richardson, Texas) and Ann Concannon (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Semiconductor devices with high area efficiency are described. Such a semiconductor device can be positioned within an isolation structure, and include diodes coupled to the isolation structure. In this manner, the semiconductor devices utilize an area, which may be otherwise left as an inactive space (or dead...