US Patent Issued to Sony Group on July 21 for "Multi-threshold voltage devices and associated techniques and configurations" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,223, issued on July 21, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Multi-threshold voltage devices and associated techniques and configurations" was invented by Joseph M. Steigerwald (Forest Grove, Ore.), Tahir Ghani (Portland, Ore.), Jenny Hu (Hillsboro, Ore.) and Ian R.C. Post (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure describe multi-threshold voltage devices and associated techniques and configurations. In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a semiconductor substrate, a channel body disposed on the semiconductor substrate, a first gate electrode having a first thickness coupled...