ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,272, issued on March 24, was assigned to Vanguard International Semiconductor Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Semiconductor device" was invented by Chia-Hao Lee (Hsinchu County, Taiwan), Chih-Cherng Liao (Hsinchu City, Taiwan) and Po-Heng Lin (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a compound semiconductor channel layer disposed on a substrate and located in an active element region and a passive element region. A compound semiconductor barrier layer is stacked on the compound semiconductor channel layer and located in the active element region and the passive element region. A source electr...