ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,484,207, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"SRAM with channel count contrast for greater read stability" was invented by Clifford Ong (Portland, Ore.), Leonard Guler (Hillsboro, Ore.), Mohammad Hasan (Aloha, Ore.) and Tahir Ghani (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Integrated circuit (IC) static random-access memory (SRAM) bit-cell structures comprising pass-gate transistors having a different number of active channel regions than the number of active channel regions in pull-down transistors. A pass-gate transistor with fewer active channel regions than a pull-down transistor may reduce read...