US Patent Issued to Skyworks Solutions on July 8 for "Devices related to switch body connections to achieve soft breakdown" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,686, issued on July 8, was assigned to Skyworks Solutions Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Devices related to switch body connections to achieve soft breakdown" was invented by Ambarish Roy (Waltham, Mass.), Guillaume Alexandre Blin (Carlisle, Mass.) and Nuttapong Srirattana (Billerica, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices and methods for switch body connections to achieve soft breakdown. In some embodiments, a radio-frequency switching device can include an assembly of source, gate, and drain implemented on an active region, a first body contact implemented at a first end of the assembly, and a second body contact implemented at a sec...