ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,699, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to VIKING TECH Corp. (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).
"Thin film resistor" was invented by Zhong-Yu Chen (Hsinchu County, Taiwan), Cheng-Chung Chiu (Hsinchu County, Taiwan), Shun-Ho Kuo (Hsinchu County, Taiwan) and Chi-Yu Lu (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A thin film resistor is provided, and a resistance layer of the thin film resistor is a patternized mesh. The mesh density of the mesh resistance layer increases from center to both ends of the film resistor. The temperature peak is shifted from the center to both ends of the film resistor. Therefore, the heat can be quickly diss...