US Patent Issued to Intel on Nov. 3 for "Integrated ring structures" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,787,748, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Integrated ring structures" was invented by June Choi (Portland, Ore.), Keith E. Zawadzki (Portland, Ore.), Kimberly L. Pierce (Beaverton, Ore.) and Mohammad Enamul Kabir (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit structure includes a device layer including a first set of devices and a second set of devices. An interconnect layer is above the device layer, where the interconnect layer includes one or more conductive interconnect features within dielectric material. In an example, a first ring structure including conductive material ext...