ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,628, issued on July 1, was assigned to Saras Micro Devices Inc. (Chandler, Ariz.).

"Stackable and embeddable vertical capacitors in semiconductor devices and method of fabrication" was invented by Ryan Wong (Atlanta), Carlos Andres Riera Cercado (Atlanta), Richard Sheridan (Gilbert, Ariz.) and Imran Khan (Alpharetta, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A stackable, embeddable capacitor has one or more first type vertical capacitor elements, each of which has a top cathode, a bottom anode, and a first orientation central capacitance region between the top cathode and the bottom anode. The capacitor also has one or more second type verti...