ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,563, issued on June 24, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).
"Transistor with gate attached field plate" was invented by Michael A. Smith (Boise, Idaho).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a substrate and a transistor disposed on the substrate. The transistor can include a gate disposed between a source area and a drain area of the transistor. The transistor can also include a plurality of routing lanes above the gate for use by automated routing programs that layout metal connections for the apparatus. A first field plate can be disposed above a LDD region of the source area with the first field pla...