US Patent Issued to MACOM TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS HOLDINGS on March 25 for "Extrinsic field termination structures for improving reliability of high-voltage, high-power active devices" (Massachusetts, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,207, issued on March 25, was assigned to MACOM TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS HOLDINGS INC. (Lowell, Mass.).

"Extrinsic field termination structures for improving reliability of high-voltage, high-power active devices" was invented by Allen W. Hanson (Cary, N.C.), Chuanxin Lian (Westford, Mass.) and Wayne Mack Struble (Franklin, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Extrinsic structures formed outside the active regions of active devices can influence aging characteristics and performance of the active devices. An example integrated device including such an extrinsic structure includes an active region of a semiconductor device in a plurality ...