US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on May 20 for "Dielectric reflow for boundary control" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,100, issued on May 20, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Dielectric reflow for boundary control" was invented by Jing Guo (Niskayuna, N.Y.), Ekmini Anuja De Silva (Slingerlands, N.Y.), Nicolas Loubet (Guilderland, N.Y.), Indira Seshadri (Niskayuna, N.Y.), Ruqiang Bao (Niskayuna, N.Y.) and Nelson Felix (Slingerlands, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the invention include a dielectric reflow technique for boundary control in which a first layer is deposited on a first transistor region and a second transistor region, the first and second transistor regions being adjacent. A dielect...