US Patent Issued to Intel on Feb. 17 for "Forksheet transistor device with air gap spine" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,557,352, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Forksheet transistor device with air gap spine" was invented by Ashish Agrawal (Hillsboro, Ore.), Christopher M. Neumann (Portland, Ore.), Seung Hoon Sung (Portland, Ore.), Marko Radosavljevic (Portland, Ore.) and Jack T. Kavalieros (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided herein to form a forksheet device with an air gap spine. The air gap may be devoid of gas, or not. In an example, the device includes a first semiconductor body laterally extending from a first side of a void (air gap) and having an end surface that defines par...