ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,702, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to UNITED MICROELECTRONICS CORP. (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan).
"Semiconductor device" was invented by Heng-Ching Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Yu-Teng Tseng (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chu-Chun Chang (Kaohsiung, Taiwan), Kuo-Yuh Yang (Hsinchu County, Taiwan) and Chia-Huei Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a gate structure on a substrate, in which the gate structure includes a main branch extending along a first direction on the substrate and a sub-branch extending along a second direction adjacent to the main branch. The semiconductor device also includes a first doped region...