ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,610,527, issued on April 21, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Integrated circuit structures having memory access transistor with backside contact" was invented by Abhishek Anil Sharma (Portland, Ore.), Tahir Ghani (Portland, Ore.), Anand S. Murthy (Portland, Ore.), Wilfred Gomes (Portland, Ore.), Cory Weber (Hillsboro, Ore.), Rishabh Mehandru (Portland, Ore.), Sagar Suthram (Portland, Ore.) and Pushkar Ranade (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Structures having memory access transistors with backside contacts are described. In an example, an integrated circuit structure includes a front-side structure in...