US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING, NATIONAL YANG MING CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY on Aug. 11 for "Semiconductor devices and methods of manufacture" (Taiwanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,794, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and NATIONAL YANG MING CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

"Semiconductor devices and methods of manufacture" was invented by Hsin-Yuan Chiu (Kaohsiung City, Taiwan), Tzu-Ang Chao (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Gregory Michael Pitner (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Matthias Passlack (Hayward, Calif.), Chao-Hsin Chien (Hsinchu City, Taiwan) and Han Wang (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device includes a carbon nanotube having a channel region and dopant-free source/drain regions at opposite sides of the channel region, a firs...