US Patent Issued to Intel on Aug. 25 for "Integrated circuit structures having cut metal gates" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,856, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Integrated circuit structures having cut metal gates" was invented by Tahir Ghani (Portland, Ore.), Mohit K. Haran (Hillsboro, Ore.), Mohammad Hasan (Aloha, Ore.), Biswajeet Guha (Hillsboro, Ore.), Alison V. Davis (Portland, Ore.) and Leonard P. Guler (Hillsboro, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Integrated circuit structures having cut metal gates, and methods of fabricating integrated circuit structures having cut metal gates, are described. For example, an integrated circuit structure includes a fin having a portion protruding above a shallow trench isol...