ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,368, issued on July 22, was assigned to GeneSiC Semiconductor Inc. (Dulles, Va.).

"Semiconductor switching device" was invented by Siddarth Sundaresan (Dulles, Va.) and Jaehoon Park (Dulles, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device having reduced Rds(on) is described. The device comprises a unit cell. The unit cell comprises: a first region, a second region, a third region, and a fourth region. The fourth region is residing on the first region, the second region, and the third region. The second region connects the first region and the third region. The first region, the second region and the third region are of same conductivity ...