US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on Nov. 4 for "Single die reinforced galvanic isolation device" (Japanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,153, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Single die reinforced galvanic isolation device" was invented by Jeffrey Alan West (Dallas), Thomas Dyer Bonifield (Dallas), Toshiyuki Tamura (Ushiku, Japan) and Yoshihiro Takei (Kashiwa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microelectronic device including an isolation device. The isolation device includes a lower isolation element, an upper isolation element, and an inorganic dielectric plateau between the lower isolation element and the upper isolation element. The inorganic dielectric plateau contains an upper etch stop layer and a lower etch stop layer bet...