US Patent Issued to Analog Devices International UnLtd. on Oct. 14 for "Semiconductor device configured for gate dielectric monitoring" (Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,850, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Analog Devices International UnLtd. Co. (County Limerick, Ireland).

"Semiconductor device configured for gate dielectric monitoring" was invented by Edward John Coyne (Athenry, Ireland), John P. Meskell (Castleconnell, Ireland), Colm Patrick Heffernan (Limerick, Ireland), Mark Forde (Nenagh, Ireland) and Shane Geary (Sixmilebridge, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed technology relates generally to semiconductor devices, and more particularly to semiconductor devices including a metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) transistor and are configured for accelerating and monitoring degrad...