US Patent Issued to SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES on April 7 for "Vertical fin-based field effect transistor (FinFET) with connected fin tips" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,805, issued on April 7, was assigned to SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES LLC (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Vertical fin-based field effect transistor (FinFET) with connected fin tips" was invented by Andrew P. Edwards (Santa Clara, Calif.), Andrew J. Walker (Santa Clara, Calif.), Clifford Drowley (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Subhash Srinivas Pidaparthi (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vertical fin-based field effect transistor (FinFET) device includes an array of FinFETs comprising a plurality of rows and columns of fins, each of the fins having a fin length and a fin width measured laterally with respect to the fin leng...