ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,863, issued on April 7, was assigned to Board of Regents, The University of Texas System (Austin, Texas).

"Nanofabrication and design techniques for 3D ICs and configurable ASICs" was invented by Sidlgata V. Sreenivasan (Austin, Texas), Paras Ajay (Austin, Texas), Aseem Sayal (Austin, Texas), Mark McDermott (Austin, Texas) and Jaydeep Kulkarni (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments of the present technology provide for the ultra-high density heterogenous integration, enabled by nano-precise pick-and-place assembly. For example, some embodiments provide for the integration of modular assembly techniques with...