US Patent Issued to Intel on Aug. 25 for "Partial gate cut structures in an integrated circuit" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,820, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Partial gate cut structures in an integrated circuit" was invented by Leonard P. Guler (Hillsboro, Ore.), Tahir Ghani (Portland, Ore.), Saurabh Morarka (Portland, Ore.) and Charles H. Wallace (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided herein to form an integrated circuit having any number of partial gate cut structures between adjacent semiconductor devices. Neighboring semiconductor devices each include a semiconductor region extending between a source region and a drain region, and a gate structure extending over the semiconducto...