ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,460, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Dielectric sidewall features for tuning thin film transistor (TFT) parasitics" was invented by Cheng Tan (Hillsboro, Ore.), Yu-Wen Huang (Beaverton, Ore.), Hui-Min Chuang (Hillsboro, Ore.), Xiaojun Weng (Portland, Ore.), Nikhil J. Mehta (Portland, Ore.), Allen B. Gardiner (Portland, Ore.), Shu Zhou (Portland, Ore.), Timothy Jen (Portland, Ore.), Abhishek Anil Sharma (Portland, Ore.), Van H. Le (Beaverton, Ore.), Travis W. Lajoie (Forest Grove, Ore.) and Bernhard Sell (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided herein for forming trans...