US Patent Issued to National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia on May 20 for "Transistor with curvilinear gate configuration for improved thermal distribution" (New Mexico, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,082, issued on May 20, was assigned to National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia LLC (Albuquerque, N.M.).

"Transistor with curvilinear gate configuration for improved thermal distribution" was invented by Shahed Reza (Albuquerque, N.M.), Maher Salloum (Livermore, Calif.) and Brianna Alexandra Klein (Albuquerque, N.M.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a transistor apparatus of the kind in which a gate electrode includes one or more gate fingers that extend laterally across a device area. At least one gate finger is not rectilinear, but instead describes two or more meanders about an average path across the d...