ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,234, issued on March 18, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Integrated circuit structures having germanium-based channels" was invented by Siddharth Chouksey (Portland, Ore.), Glenn Glass (Portland, Ore.), Anand Murthy (Portland, Ore.), Harold Kennel (Portland, Ore.), Jack T. Kavalieros (Portland, Ore.), Tahir Ghani (Portland, Ore.), Ashish Agrawal (Hillsboro, Ore.) and Seung Hoon Sung (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the disclosure are in the field of advanced integrated circuit structure fabrication and, in particular, integrated circuit structures having germanium-based channels are d...