ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,507,474, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Input/output semiconductor devices" was invented by Mao-Lin Huang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Lung-Kun Chu (New Taipei, Taiwan), Chung-Wei Hsu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Jia-Ni Yu (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Kuo-Cheng Chiang (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device according to an embodiment includes a first gate-all-around (GAA) transistor and a second GAA transistor. The first GAA transistor includes a first plurality of channel members, a first interfacial layer over the first plurality of channel members, a first ...