US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Feb. 18 for "Size-efficient mitigation of latchup and latchup propagation" (Vermont Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,230,629, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Size-efficient mitigation of latchup and latchup propagation" was invented by Terence Hook (Jericho Center, Vt.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A set of transistor elements includes a substrate of a first doping type and a first well and a second well, both of a second doping type and both formed on the substrate. The set of transistor elements also includes a first complementary transistor cell and a second complementary transistor cell. The set of transistor element also includes an anti-propagation region of the first doping type between ...