ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,272,755, issued on April 8, was assigned to MediaTek Inc. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Semiconductor structure" was invented by Cheng-Tien Wan (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan) and Ming-Cheng Lee (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor structure includes several semiconductor stacks over a substrate, and each of the semiconductor stacks extends in a first direction, wherein adjacent semiconductor stacks are spaced apart from each other in a second direction, which is different from the first direction. Each of the semiconductor stacks includes channel layers above the substrate and a gate structure across the channel layers. The channel...