US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING, NATIONAL YANG MING CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY on May 20 for "Transistors having two-dimensional semiconductor channels" (Taiwanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,073, issued on May 20, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and NATIONAL YANG MING CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Transistors having two-dimensional semiconductor channels" was invented by Chen Han Chou (Tainan, Taiwan), Shu-Jui Chang (Hsinchu County, Taiwan), Yen-Teng Ho (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chia Hsing Wu (New Taipei, Taiwan), Kai-Yu Peng (Miaoli County, Taiwan), Cheng Hung Shen (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Chenming Hu (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device comprises a plurality of 2D semiconductor nanostructures, a gate structure, a source region, and a drain regio...