ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,247, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Imec VZW (Leuven, Belgium).
"Circuit cell for a standard cell semiconductor device" was invented by Boon Teik Chan (Wilsele, Belgium), Bilal Chehab (Leuven, Belgium) and Julien Ryckaert (Schaerbeek, Belgium).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A standard cell semiconductor device is provided that includes a first and second FET device, each including: (i) a source body and a drain body, each including a common source or drain body portion and a set of source or drain prongs protruding from the common source or drain body portion, (ii) a set of channel layers, each channel layer extending between a pa...