ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,947, issued on June 10, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Substrate-less silicon controlled rectifier (SCR) integrated circuit structures" was invented by Rui Ma (Portland, Ore.), Kalyan Kolluru (Portland, Ore.), Nicholas Thomson (Hillsboro, Ore.), Ayan Kar (Portland, Ore.), Benjamin Orr (Portland, Ore.), Nathan Jack (Forest Grove, Ore.), Biswajeet Guha (Hillsboro, Ore.), Brian Greene (Portland, Ore.) and Chung-Hsun Lin (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Substrate-less silicon controlled rectifier (SCR) integrated circuit structures, and methods of fabricating substrate-less silicon controlled rectifier ...