ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,253, issued on July 21, was assigned to STMICROELECTRONICS (ROUSSET) SAS (Rousset, France).

"Electronic device comprising transistors" was invented by Rosalia Germana-Carpineto (Antibes, France) and Lia Masoero (Marseilles, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present description concerns an electronic device comprising a semiconductor substrate, transistors having their gates contained in first trenches extending in the substrate, and at least one electronic component, different from a transistor, at least partly formed in a first semiconductor region contained in a second trench extending in the semiconductor substrate paralle...