US Patent Issued to Infineon Technologies Austria on July 8 for "Passive substrate voltage discharge circuit for bidirectional switches" (Austrian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,730, issued on July 8, was assigned to Infineon Technologies Austria AG (Villach, Austria).

"Passive substrate voltage discharge circuit for bidirectional switches" was invented by Kennith Kin Leong (Villach, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor body having an active region and a substrate region that is disposed beneath the active region, and a bidirectional switch formed in the semiconductor body. The bidirectional switch includes first and second gate structures that are each configured to control a conductive state of an electrically conductive channel that is disposed in the activ...