ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,663, issued on May 27, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Method and apparatus for determining gate capacitance" was invented by Jonne Verneri Koski (The Hague, Netherlands) and Filip Kazimierz Malinowski (Delft, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method of determining a gate capacitance of a semiconductor device having a source, a drain, a gate, and a channel, the semiconductor device being arranged in a circuit further comprising an electrical resonator, wherein one of the source, the drain, and the gate is connected to the electrical resonator. The method comprises: measurin...