US Patent Issued to Intel on Aug. 25 for "Fabrication of reconfigurable architectures using ferroelectrics" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,859, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Fabrication of reconfigurable architectures using ferroelectrics" was invented by Elijah V. Karpov (Portland, Ore.) and Sou-Chi Chang (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus is provided which comprises: a plurality of logic blocks comprising transistors on a substrate, the logic blocks to implement logic functions; a plurality of input/output (I/O) blocks connecting the logic blocks with components external to the apparatus; a plurality of interconnect layers comprising wires and vias surrounded by interlayer dielectric above the substrate...