US Patent Issued to Intel on Nov. 3 for "Plug between two gates of a semiconductor device" (Oregon, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,787,423, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Plug between two gates of a semiconductor device" was invented by Leonard P. Guler (Hillsboro, Ore.), Robert Joachim (Beaverton, Ore.), Shengsi Liu (Portland, Ore.), Hongqian Sun (Sammamish, Wash.) and Tahir Ghani (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein may be related to apparatuses, processes, systems, and/or techniques for forming a plug between two gates within a transistor layer of a semiconductor device. In embodiments, the plug includes a cap at a top of the plug and a liner surrounding at least a portion of the cap, an...