US Patent Issued to Intel on July 21 for "Inline circuit edit for backside power delivery" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,444, issued on July 21, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Inline circuit edit for backside power delivery" was invented by Clifford J. Engel (Hillsboro, Ore.) and Robert L. Bristol (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Lithographic methodologies involving, and apparatuses suitable for, inline circuit edits are described. In an example, an integrated circuit structure includes a device layer including a plurality of transistor structures. A front-end routing layer is above the device layer, the front-end routing layer coupled to one or more of the plurality of transistors. A backside metal structure is below...