ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,786, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Champion Microelectronic Corp. (Taiwan).

"Stacked transistor arrangement and process of manufacture thereof" was invented by Jeffrey Hwang (Saratoga, Calif.), Hung-Chen Lin (Zhudong Township, Taiwan), Chi-Wu Yao (Zhubei, Taiwan) and Cheng-Hsiung Chang (Zhudong Township, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A stacked transistor arrangement and process of manufacture thereof are provided. Switched electrodes of first and second transistor chips are accessible on opposite sides of the first and second transistor chips. The first and second transistor chips are stacked one on top of the other. Swi...