ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,122, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Intel NDTM US LLC (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Interdeck layers and pillar alignment" was invented by John Hopkins (Milpitas, Calif.), Anil Chandolu (Boise, Idaho) and Nancy Lomeli (Boise, Idaho).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor circuit includes multiple decks of semiconductor devices, each deck having multiple three-dimensional (3D) stacks. The semiconductor circuit has a nitride layer between the first deck and the second deck. The nitride layer has a self-aligned pillar through the nitride layer to electrically connect the first deck to the second deck. The nitride layer can have mul...