ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,516, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Forksheet transistor with asymmetric dielectric spine" was invented by Christopher M. Neumann (Portland, Ore.), Ashish Agrawal (Hillsboro, Ore.), Seung Hoon Sung (Portland, Ore.), Marko Radosavljevic (Portland, Ore.) and Jack T. Kavalieros (Portland, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided herein to form a forksheet transistor device with a dielectric overhang structure. The dielectric overhang structure includes a dielectric layer that at least partially hangs over the nanoribbons of each semiconductor device in the forksheet transistor a...