US Patent Issued to Analog Devices on Feb. 10 for "Low capacitance poly-bounded silicon controlled rectifiers" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,453, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Analog Devices Inc. (Wilmington, Mass.).

"Low capacitance poly-bounded silicon controlled rectifiers" was invented by Srivatsan Parthasarathy (Acton, Mass.), Shudong Huang (Malden, Mass.), Yuanzhong Zhou (Andover, Mass.) and Jean-Jacques Hajjar (Lexington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Low capacitance poly-bounded silicon controlled rectifiers (SCRs) are disclosed herein. In certain embodiments, an SCR includes an n-type well (NW) and a p-type well (PW) formed adjacent to one another in a substrate. The SCR further includes active regions including p-type active (P+) fin regions over the...