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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 30, 2010
Filed:
Jul. 18, 2005
Applicant:
John R. Cutter, Macclesfield, GB;
Inventor:
John R. Cutter, Macclesfield, GB;
Assignee:
NXP B.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 25/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A field transistor is divided into a number of cells () and includes a separate first gate line () connected to first transistor cells () and a separate second gate line () connected to second transistor cells (). A drive circuit is used to drive all the cells () in a normal, saturated operations state but to drive only the second cells () in a linear operations state to reduce the number of cells used in the linear operations state.