US Patent Issued to Intel on June 30 for "Conductive via bar self-aligned to gate end" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,334, issued on June 30, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Conductive via bar self-aligned to gate end" was invented by Leonard P. Guler (Hillsboro, Ore.), Tahir Ghani (Portland, Ore.), Charles H. Wallace (Portland, Ore.), Conor P. Puls (Portland, Ore.), Walid M. Hafez (Portland, Ore.), Sairam Subramanian (Portland, Ore.), Justin S. Sandford (Tigard, Ore.), Saurabh Morarka (Hillsboro, Ore.), Sean Pursel (Hillsboro, Ore.) and Mohammad Hasan (Aloha, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Conductive via bars self-aligned to gate ends are described. In an example, an integrated circuit structure includes a plurality of gate...