US Patent Issued to HYUNDAI MOTOR, KIA on March 11 for "Power semiconductor device and method for fabricating the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,249,620, issued on March 11, was assigned to HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY (Seoul, South Korea) and KIA Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Power semiconductor device and method for fabricating the same" was invented by Jong Seok Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Tae Ho Jeong (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Kyoung Kook Hong (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power semiconductor device includes: a semiconductor layer; a well region positioned inside the semiconductor layer and having a first conductive type; a source region positioned on the well region and having a second conductive type; a gate region making contact with a side surfac...