US Patent Issued to Intel on Nov. 11 for "Integrated circuit devices with angled transistors formed based on angled wafers" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,334, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Integrated circuit devices with angled transistors formed based on angled wafers" was invented by Abhishek A. Sharma (Hillsboro, Ore.), Tahir Ghani (Portland, Ore.), Anand S. Murthy (Portland, Ore.), Wilfred Gomes (Portland, Ore.) and Sagar Suthram (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "IC devices including angled transistors formed based on angled wafers are disclosed. An example IC device includes a substrate and a semiconductor structure. A crystal direction of a crystal structure in the semiconductor structure is not aligned with a corresponding c...