ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,211, issued on June 3, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Ring transistor structure" was invented by Aurelien Gauthier Brun (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan), Chun Lin Tsai (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan), Jiun-Lei Jerry Yu (Zhudong Township, Taiwan), Po-Chih Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Yun-Hsiang Wang (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a transistor device. The transistor device includes a plurality of source contacts disposed over a substrate. A plurality of gate structures are disposed over the substrate. The plurality of gate structures wrap around one or more of the p...