US Patent Issued to Intel on Nov. 3 for "Inline circuit edit" (Oregon, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,787,747, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Inline circuit edit" was invented by Clifford J. Engel (Hillsboro, Ore.), Robert L. Bristol (Portland, Ore.), Richard H. Livengood (San Jose, Calif.), Mahesh Tanniru (Portland, Ore.), Akshit Peer (Hillsboro, Ore.), Mauro J. Kobrinsky (Portland, Ore.) and Kevin Lai Lin (Beaverton, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Lithographic methodologies involving, and apparatuses suitable for, inline circuit edits are described. In an example, an integrated circuit structure includes a first conductive line and a second conductive line in a first dielectric layer, the seco...