US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on Nov. 11 for "Non-overlapping gate conductors for GAA transistors" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,355, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Non-overlapping gate conductors for GAA transistors" was invented by Ruqiang Bao (Niskayuna, N.Y.), Eric Miller (Albany, N.Y.) and Dechao Guo (Niskayuna, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Semiconductor devices and methods of forming the same include a first transistor in a first region having a first work function metal layer. A second transistor in a second region has a second work function metal layer that overlaps a portion of the first work function metal layer and that has a vertical part above the portion of the first work function ...