US Patent Issued to Infineon Technologies on March 11 for "Methods of equalizing gate heights in embedded non-volatile memory on HKMG technology" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,815, issued on March 11, was assigned to Infineon Technologies LLC (San Jose, Calif.).

"Methods of equalizing gate heights in embedded non-volatile memory on HKMG technology" was invented by Krishnaswamy Ramkumar (San Jose, Calif.) and Shivananda Shetty (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Semiconductor devices and methods of manufacturing the same are provided. The semiconductor devices may have a memory array having two transistor (2T) memory cells, each including a non-volatile memory (NVM) transistor and a high voltage (HV) field-effect transistor (FET) as a select transistor disposed within at least one recess(es). T...