ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,935, issued on June 10, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Integrated input output and logic device for nanosheet technology" was invented by Maruf Amin Bhuiyan (Albany, N.Y.), Ardasheir Rahman (Schenectady, N.Y.), Kevin W. Brew (Niskayuna, N.Y.) and Carl Radens (LaGrangeville, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein provide for integrated input/output and logic devices for nanosheet technology and methods of fabrication for the devices. The types of transistors used for input/output devices and logic devices may differ such that, for example, input/output devices may use E...