ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,453,115, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Nanowire transistor structure and method of shaping" was invented by Erica J. Thompson (Beaverton, Ore.), Aditya Kasukurti (Hillsboro, Ore.), Jun Sung Kang (Portland, Ore.), Kai Loon Cheong (Beaverton, Ore.), Biswajeet Guha (Hillsboro, Ore.), William Hsu (Hillsboro, Ore.) and Bruce Beattie (Portland, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A nanowire device includes one or more nanowire having a first end portion, a second end portion, and a body portion between the first end portion and the second end portion. A first conductive structure is in contact with the ...