ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,837, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to CERIUM LABORATORIES LLC (Austin, Texas).

"System and method for forming radiation hardened circuitry" was invented by Clayton Fullwood (Austin, Texas) and Timothy Hossain (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor component includes a substrate including a plurality of source/drain implants in the form of rows and a charge storage structure disposed over the substrate. The charge storage structure includes at least three continuous layers including a first silicon oxide layer, a silicon nitride layer disposed on the first silicon oxide layer, and a second silicon oxide layer ...