US Patent Issued to Intel on Aug. 4 for "Integrated circuit structures having gate cut plug removed from trench contact" (Oregon, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,746, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Integrated circuit structures having gate cut plug removed from trench contact" was invented by Leonard P. Guler (Hillsboro, Ore.), Marie Conte (Hillsboro, Ore.), Charles H. Wallace (Portland, Ore.), Robert Joachim (Beaverton, Ore.), Shengsi Liu (Portland, Ore.), Saurabh Acharya (Hillsboro, Ore.), Nidhi Khandelwal (Portland, Ore.), Kyle T. Horak (Portland, Ore.), Robert Robinson (Beaverton, Ore.) and Brandon Peters (Darien, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Integrated circuit structures having gate cut plugs removed from trench contacts, and methods of fabric...