US Patent Issued to Intel on July 28 for "Integrated circuit structures with trench contact depopulation structure" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,521, issued on July 28, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Integrated circuit structures with trench contact depopulation structure" was invented by Leonard P. Guler (Hillsboro, Ore.), Dan S. Lavric (Beaverton, Ore.), Charles H. Wallace (Portland, Ore.), Tahir Ghani (Portland, Ore.), Saurabh Acharya (Hillsboro, Ore.) and Thomas O'Brien (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Integrated circuit structures having trench contact depopulation structures, and methods of fabricating integrated circuit structures having trench contact depopulation structures, are described. For example, an integrated circuit structur...