ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,956, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to INNOSCIENCE (SUZHOU) SEMICONDUCTOR Co. LTD. (Suzhou, China).

"Nitride-based bidirectional switching device for battery management and method for manufacturing the same" was invented by Qiyue Zhao (Suzhou, China), Wuhao Gao (Suzhou, China) and Baoli Wei (Suzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A nitride-based bidirectional switching device is provided for working with a battery protection controller having a power input terminal, a discharge over-current protection (DO) terminal, a charge over-current protection (CO) terminal, a voltage monitoring (VM) terminal and a ground terminal. The ni...