US Patent Issued to STMicroelectronics (Crolles 2) on June 10 for "Semiconductor integrated circuit component" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,896, issued on June 10, was assigned to STMicroelectronics (Crolles 2) SAS (Crolles, France).

"Semiconductor integrated circuit component" was invented by Benoit Froment (Grenoble, France) and Thomas Cabout (Grenoble, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit includes a semiconductor substrate having a first type of conductivity and a semiconductor component. The semiconductor component includes: a buried semiconductor region having a second type of conductivity opposite to the first type of conductivity; a first gate region and a second gate region each extending in depth from a front face of the semiconductor subs...