ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,726, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Jumper gate for advanced integrated circuit structures" was invented by Sukru Yemeniciouglu (Portland, Ore.), Leonard P. Guler (Hillsboro, Ore.), Gilbert Dewey (Beaverton, Ore.) and Tahir Ghani (Portland, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Jumper gates for advanced integrated circuit structures are described. For example, an integrated circuit structure includes a first vertical stack of horizontal nanowire segments. A second vertical stack of horizontal nanowire segments is spaced apart from the first vertical stack of horizontal nanowire segments. A conduc...