US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on May 19 for "Method of forming a hall sensor with performance control" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,635,421, issued on May 19, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Method of forming a hall sensor with performance control" was invented by Keith R. Green (Prosper, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Hall sensor includes a Hall well, such as an implanted region in a surface layer of a semiconductor structure, and four doped regions spaced apart from one another in the implanted region. The implanted region and the doped regions include majority carriers of the same conductivity type. The sensor also includes a dielectric layer that extends over the implanted region, and an electrode layer over the dielectric layer to operat...