ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,373, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Selective removal of channel bodies in stacked gate-all-around (GAA) device structures" was invented by Munzarin F. Qayyum (Hillsboro, Ore.), Nicole K. Thomas (Portland, Ore.), Jami A. Wiedemer (Scappoose, Ore.), Jack T. Kavalieros (Portland, Ore.), Marko Radosavljevic (Portland, Ore.), Willy Rachmady (Beaverton, Ore.), Cheng-Ying Huang (Hillsboro, Ore.), Rohit Galatage (Hillsboro, Ore.), Nitesh Kumar (Beaverton, Ore.), Kai Loon Cheong (Beaverton, Ore.) and Venkata Vasiraju (Hillsboro, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor structure includes an ...