US Patent Issued to Intel on May 20 for "Vertical integration scheme and circuit elements architecture for area scaling of semiconductor devices" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,044, issued on May 20, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Vertical integration scheme and circuit elements architecture for area scaling of semiconductor devices" was invented by Rishabh Mehandru (Portland, Ore.), Patrick Morrow (Portland, Ore.), Ranjith Kumar (Beaverton, Ore.), Cory E. Weber (Hillsboro, Ore.), Seiyon Kim (Portland, Ore.), Stephen M. Cea (Hillsboro, Ore.) and Tahir Ghani (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Vertical integration schemes and circuit elements architectures for area scaling of semiconductor devices are described. In an example, an inverter structure includes a semiconductor fin...