ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,746, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to GlobalFoundries U.S. Inc. (Malta, N.Y.).

"Structure with gate over non-aligned semiconductor regions" was invented by David Charles Pritchard (Schenectady, N.Y.), Ramesh Raghavan (Bengaluru, India), Thirunavukkarasu Ranganathan (Bangalore, India), Rajesh Reddy Tummuru (Bengaluru, India), Benoit Francois Claude Ramadout (Dresden, Germany) and Luca Pirro (Dresden, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the disclosure provide a structure and related method for a gate over semiconductor regions that are not aligned. Structures according to the disclosure include a first semiconductor...