US Patent Issued to Intel on July 21 for "Stacked source or drain contact flyover" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,257, issued on July 21, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Stacked source or drain contact flyover" was invented by Sukru Yemenicioglu (Portand, Ore.), Quan Shi (Portland, Ore.), Marni Nabors (Portland, Ore.), Charles H. Wallace (Portland, Ore.), Xinning Wang (Hillsboro, Ore.), Tahir Ghani (Portland, Ore.), Andy Chih-Hung Wei (Yamhill, Ore.), Mohit K. Haran (Forest Grove, Ore.), Leonard P. Guler (Hillsboro, Ore.), Sivakumar Venkataraman (Hillsboro, Ore.), Reken Patel (Portland, Ore.) and Richard Schenker (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit includes a first device having a first source...