ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,701, issued on June 23, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Logic gates" was invented by Wenjun Li (Meridian, Idaho), Seong-Dong Kim (Boise, Idaho) and Anda Mocuta (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiment herein relate to logic gates. An example of a logic gate includes a semiconductor material, source regions having a first width, drain regions having a second width that is different than the first width, transistor gates, and electrical contacts coupled to the source regions and the drain regions."

The patent was filed on July 19, 2022, under Application No. 17/868,737.

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