ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,882, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Integrated circuit including flash memory and CMOS logic circuitry" was invented by Giulio Albini (Draper, Utah) and Jonathan Lane (Sandy, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit (IC) including Flash memory and CMOS logic circuitry and a method of fabrication thereof is disclosed. The IC comprises a substrate including a recessed area of a first region, a Flash memory cell gate stack formed in the recessed area, a wordline (WL) transistor formed in the recessed area and coupled with the Flash memory cell gate stack, the WL transistor including...