US Patent Issued to Wolfspeed on Aug. 19 for "Device design for short-circuit protection of transistors" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,214, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Wolfspeed Inc. (Durham, N.C.).

"Device design for short-circuit protection of transistors" was invented by James Richmond (Hillsborough, N.C.), Edward Robert Van Brunt (Raleigh, N.C.) and Philipp Steinmann (Durham, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transistor semiconductor die includes a first current terminal, a second current terminal, and a control terminal. A semiconductor structure is between the first current terminal, the second current terminal, and the control terminal and configured such that a resistance between the first current terminal and the second current terminal is based ...