ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,711, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Half bridge ceramic hermetic package structure" was invented by Kwang-Soo Kim (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Vivek Arora (San Jose, Calif.) and Ken Pham (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device includes a multilevel ceramic body, first, second, and third plates, and first and second semiconductor dies, with the multilevel ceramic body having opposite first and second sides, a first and second openings in the first side, a third opening in the second side, and a ceramic separator structure defining first and second interior portions between th...