US Patent Issued to COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES on Sept. 2 for "Device comprising spacers including a localised airgap and associated manufacturing methods" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,405, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES (Paris).

"Device comprising spacers including a localised airgap and associated manufacturing methods" was invented by Fabrice Nemouchi (Grenoble, France), Cyrille Le Royer (Grenoble, France) and Nicolas Posseme (Grenoble, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device made on a substrate including an active region and a non-active region at least partially surrounding the active region, a plurality of gate stacks, a part of each gate stack being on the active region, each gate stack being separated from adjacent gate ...