US Patent Issued to Texas Instruments on May 27 for "Isolation device with safety fuse" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,518, issued on May 27, was assigned to Texas Instruments Inc. (Dallas).

"Isolation device with safety fuse" was invented by Honglin Guo (Dallas) and Thomas Dyer Bonifield (Dallas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device can include first and second conductive layers that can be positioned over a substrate, and at least one dielectric layer between the first and second conductive layers. The at least one dielectric layer can be positioned over at least a portion of the second conductive layer, and the first conductive layer can be positioned over a portion of the least one dielectric layer. The semiconductor device can fu...