ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,070, issued on April 15, was assigned to INOSO LLC (Austin, Texas).

"Electromechanical power switch integrated circuits and devices and methods thereof" was invented by Kiyoshi Mori (Missouri City, Texas), Ziep Tran (Austin, Texas), Giang Trung Dao (Milpitas, Calif.) and Michael Edward Ramon (Pflugerville, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electromechanical power switch device and methods thereof. At least some of the illustrative embodiments are devices including a semiconductor substrate, at least one integrated circuit device on a front surface of the semiconductor substrate, an insulating layer on the at least one integrated...