ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,916, issued on April 29, was assigned to UNITED MICROELECTRONICS CORP. (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan).
"Semiconductor structure" was invented by Wei-Cheng Hung (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Yu-Jen Liu (Kaohsiung, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides a semiconductor structure, the semiconductor structure includes a substrate, a transistor disposed on the substrate, wherein the transistor comprises a gate structure, a source and a drain, and the gate structure of the transistor located on the substrate and extending along a first direction, and a plurality of supporting patterns located in the gate structure of the transistor, wh...