US Patent Issued to SK Hynix NAND Product Solutions on June 9 for "Reducing band-to-band tunneling in semiconductor devices" (Oregon, Idaho Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,652,829, issued on June 9, was assigned to SK Hynix NAND Product Solutions Corp. (Rancho Cordova, Calif.).

"Reducing band-to-band tunneling in semiconductor devices" was invented by Benjamin Chu-Kung (Boise, Idaho), Jack T. Kavalieros (Portland, Ore.), Seung Hoon Sung (Portland, Ore.), Siddharth Chouksey (Portland, Ore.), Harold W. Kennel (Portland, Ore.), Dipanjan Basu (Portland, Ore.), Ashish Agrawal (Hillsboro, Ore.), Glenn A. Glass (Portland, Ore.), Tahir Ghani (Portland, Ore.) and Anand S. Murthy (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Integrated circuit transistor structures are disclosed that reduce band-to-band tunneling be...