US Patent Issued to Applied Materials on Sept. 8 for "Electronic device including s-shaped staggered contacts" (Massachusetts, California, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,429, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Applied Materials Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Electronic device including s-shaped staggered contacts" was invented by M. Arif Zeeshan (Manchester-by-the-Sea, Mass.), Kelvin Chan (San Ramon, Calif.), Shantanu Kallakuri (Ithaca, N.Y.) and Sony Varghese (Manchester-by-the-Sea, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device including an active device region, disposed at least partially in a first level, the active device region comprising an array of active device features, an array of device structures, disposed in a second level, above the first level, and a contact level, comprising...