ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,383, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to AMAZING MICROELECTRONIC CORP. (New Taipei, Taiwan).

"Transient voltage suppression device" was invented by Chih-Wei Chen (Zhubei, Taiwan), Kuan-Yu Lin (New Taipei, Taiwan), Mei-Lian Fan (Hukou Township, Taiwan) and Kun-Hsien Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transient voltage suppression device includes at least one N-type lightly-doped structure, a first P-type well, a second P-type well, a first N-type heavily-doped area, and a second N-type heavily-doped area. The first P-type well and the second P-type well are formed in the N-type lightly-doped structure. The first N-ty...