US Patent Issued to Intel on June 23 for "Metal routing that overlaps NMOS and PMOS regions of a transistor" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,950, issued on June 23, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Metal routing that overlaps NMOS and PMOS regions of a transistor" was invented by Sukru Yemenicioglu (Portland, Ore.), Richard E. Schenker (Portland, Ore.), Xinning Wang (Portland, Ore.) and Tahir Ghani (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein may be related to apparatuses, processes, and techniques for providing a metal routing layer zero (M0) track within a circuit structure that had a width that overlaps both PMOS and NMOS within the circuit structure. There may be three M0 routing tracks, with a first of the M0 routing ...