US Patent Issued to Intel on March 17 for "Contact over active gate structures with conductive trench contact taps for advanced integrated circuit structure fabrication" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,927, issued on March 17, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Contact over active gate structures with conductive trench contact taps for advanced integrated circuit structure fabrication" was invented by Manish Chandhok (Beaverton, Ore.), Elijah V. Karpov (Portland, Ore.), Mohit K. Haran (Hillsboro, Ore.), Reken Patel (Portland, Ore.), Charles H. Wallace (Portland, Ore.), Gurpreet Singh (Portland, Ore.), Florian Gstrein (Portland, Ore.), Eungnak Han (Portland, Ore.), Urusa Alaan (Hillsboro, Ore.), Leonard P. Guler (Hillsboro, Ore.) and Paul A. Nyhus (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Contact over active g...