ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,662, issued on July 8, was assigned to Lodestar Licensing Group LLC (Evanston, Ill.).

"Apparatuses comprising transistors including extension regions" was invented by Haitao Liu (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of forming a transistor might include forming a dielectric overlying a semiconductor having a first conductivity type, forming a conductor overlying the dielectric, patterning the conductor and dielectric to define a gate stack of the transistor, forming a first extension region base and a second extension region base in the semiconductor, forming a first extension region riser overlying the first extension ...