US Patent Issued to Intel on June 16 for "Interconnect structures for integrated circuits" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,660,156, issued on June 16, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Interconnect structures for integrated circuits" was invented by Travis Lajoie (Forest Grove, Ore.), Tahir Ghani (Portland, Ore.), Jack T. Kavalieros (Portland, Ore.), Shem O. Ogadhoh (Beaverton, Ore.), Yih Wang (Portland, Ore.), Bernhard Sell (Portland, Ore.), Allen Gardiner (Portland, Ore.), Blake Lin (Portland, Ore.), Juan G. Alzate Vinasco (Tigard, Ore.), Pei-Hua Wang (Beaverton, Ore.), Chieh-Jen Ku (Hillsboro, Ore.) and Abhishek A. Sharma (Hillsboro, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments herein describe techniques for a semiconductor device hav...