ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,961, issued on July 15, was assigned to INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AG (Neubiberg, Germany).
"Semiconductor device" was invented by Carsten Schaeffer (Annenheim, Austria), Patrick Hanekamp (Laaber, Germany), Oliver Humbel (Maria Elend, Austria), Angelika Koprowski (Klagenfurt, Austria), Wolfgang Lehnert (Lintach, Germany) and Francisco Javier Santos Rodriguez (Villach, Austria).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device and a method of forming a semiconductor device are provided. In an embodiment, the semiconductor device comprises a device region, an edge termination region surrounding the device region, a first metal feature in...