US Patent Issued to Wolfspeed on Oct. 14 for "Semiconductor devices having on-chip gate resistors" (North Carolina, Arkansas, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,300, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Wolfspeed Inc. (Durham, N.C.).

"Semiconductor devices having on-chip gate resistors" was invented by Rahul R. Potera (Apex, N.C.), Prasanna Obala Bhuvanesh (Leander, Texas), Shadi Sabri (Apex, N.C.), Roberto M. Schupbach (Fayetteville, Ark.) and Jianwen Shao (Cary, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Power semiconductor devices comprise a gate pad, a gate bus, and a gate resistor that is electrically interposed between the gate pad and the gate bus and comprises a wide band-gap semiconductor material region."

The patent was filed on June 23, 2022, under Application No. 17/847,410.

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