US Patent Issued to Intel on June 30 for "Integrated circuit structures with gate volume reduction" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,311, issued on June 30, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Integrated circuit structures with gate volume reduction" was invented by Leonard P. Guler (Hillsboro, Ore.), Sukru Yemenicioglu (Portland, Ore.), Raghuram Gandikota (Portland, Ore.), Krishna Ganesan (Portland, Ore.) and Sean Pursel (Hillsboro, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Integrated circuit structures having gate volume reduction, and methods of fabricating integrated circuit structures having gate volume reduction, are described. For example, an integrated circuit structure includes a sub-fin structure beneath a stack of nanowires, the stack of nanow...