ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,555, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to GlobalFoundries U.S. Inc. (Malta, N.Y.).

"Customizable logic cell with methods to form same" was invented by Siva Kumar Chinthu (Bangalore, India), Venu Gopal Reddy Ara (Bangalore, India) and Devesh Dwivedi (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the disclosure provide a customizable logic cells and related methods to form the same. A structure of the disclosure includes a first pair of complementary transistors connected in series between a first voltage node and a second voltage node. Each transistor of the first pair includes a gate coupled to a first input node. A seco...