ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,717, issued on June 3, was assigned to AMS AG (Premstaetten, Austria) and COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES (Paris).

"Semiconductor device and method for manufacturing a semiconductor device" was invented by Jens Hofrichter (Premstaetten, Austria), Manuel Kaschowitz (Premstaetten, Austria), Bernhard Poelzl (Premstaetten, Austria), Karl Rohracher (Premstaetten, Austria), Amandine Jouve (Premstaetten, Austria), Viorel Balan (Premstaetten, Austria), Romain Crochemore (Premstaetten, Austria), Frank Fournel (Premstaetten, Austria) and Sylvain Maitrejean (Premstaetten, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A se...