ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,235, issued on July 21, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Gate-all-around integrated circuit structures having depopulated channel structures using directed bottom-up approach" was invented by Leonard P. Guler (Hillsboro, Ore.), Clifford Ong (Portland, Ore.), Mohammad Hasan (Aloha, Ore.), Tahir Ghani (Portland, Ore.) and Charles H. Wallace (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Gate-all-around integrated circuit structures having depopulated channel structures, and methods of fabricating gate-all-around integrated circuit structures having depopulated channel structures using a directed bottom-up approach, a...