US Patent Issued to SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES on Oct. 14 for "Semiconductor devices and methods of manufacturing semiconductor devices" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,272, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES LLC (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Semiconductor devices and methods of manufacturing semiconductor devices" was invented by Jimmy Robert Hannes Franchi (Enkoping, Sweden) and Martin Domeij (Sollentuna, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of making a semiconductor device includes providing semiconductor region of a first conductivity type. A first region comprising the first conductivity type and a second dopant concentration greater than the first dopant concentration is provided within the region. The first region provides a JFET channel region for a JFET...