US Patent Issued to Wolfspeed on May 13 for "Transistor device structure with angled wire bonds" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,564, issued on May 13, was assigned to Wolfspeed Inc. (Durham, N.C.).

"Transistor device structure with angled wire bonds" was invented by Kyoung-Keun Lee (Cary, N.C.) and Tim McManus (Henderson, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transistor device includes a substrate, a gate contact pad on the substrate, and a transistor die on the substrate adjacent the gate contact pad. The transistor die includes an active region and a gate bond pad adjacent the active region, and the gate bond pad has a side edge adjacent the active region that extends in a first direction. The transistor device includes a bonding wire bonded to the gate con...