ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,304, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Integrated circuit semiconductor element having heterogeneous gate structures and method of fabricating integrated circuit semiconductor element" was invented by Kyungsoo Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Kyenhee Lee (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit semiconductor element includes: a substrate; a complementary field effect transistor (FET) (cFET) formed over the substrate and having a quadruple-gate structure, in which nano sheet stacked structures are sequentially stacked; and a planar FET having a m...