ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,289, issued on April 15, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"TMD inverted nanowire integration" was invented by Kevin P. O'Brien (Portland, Ore.), Carl Naylor (Portland, Ore.), Chelsey Dorow (Portland, Ore.), Kirby Maxey (Hillsboro, Ore.), Tanay Gosavi (Portland, Ore.), Ashish Verma Penumatcha (Beaverton, Ore.), Shriram Shivaraman (Hillsboro, Ore.), Chia-Ching Lin (Portland, Ore.), Sudarat Lee (Hillsboro, Ore.) and Uygar E. Avci (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments disclosed herein comprise semiconductor devices with two dimensional (2D) semiconductor channels and methods of forming such devices. ...