ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,074, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to SK keyfoundry Inc. (Cheongju-si, South Korea).

"Semiconductor device with bootstrap diode" was invented by Youngbae Kim (Sejong-si, South Korea), Nara Jang (Cheongju-si, South Korea) and Gyuri Hong (Cheongju-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device including a bootstrap diode is provided. The semiconductor device comprises a first deep well region and a second deep well region disposed in a substrate; a pinch-off region disposed between the first and second deep well regions and configured to have a depth smaller than depths of the first and second deep well regions...