US Patent Issued to Vector Photonics on Sept. 8 for "Electrical contact" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,958, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Vector Photonics Ltd. (Glasgow, Great Britain).

"Electrical contact" was invented by Jonathan Robert Orchard (Glasgow, Great Britain), David Childs (Bearsden, Great Britain) and Richard Taylor (Glasgow, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrical contact for a semiconductor device, and a method of forming an electrical contact is disclosed. The electrical contact includes a perimeter area, an aperture located within the perimeter area and one or more electrical tracks extending from the perimeter area into the aperture. The one or more electrical tracks have a non-linear shape. T...