ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,300, issued on June 17, was assigned to SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES LLC (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Semiconductor devices and methods of manufacturing semiconductor devices" was invented by Rouying Zhan (Chandler, Ariz.) and Yupeng Chen (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an example, a semiconductor device includes a region of semiconductor material with a buried doped region of a first conductivity type. A first well region of the first conductivity type is in the region of semiconductor material and is electrically coupled to the buried doped region. A second well region of a second conductivity type is in the reg...