US Patent Issued to Intel on Oct. 6 for "Gate-all-around transistor circuit modification using direct contact and/or access probe points" (American, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,757,776, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Gate-all-around transistor circuit modification using direct contact and/or access probe points" was invented by Richard H. Livengood (San Jose, Calif.), Muhammad Usman Raza (Fremont, Calif.), Waqas Ali (San Jose, Calif.), Tahir Malik (Portland, Ore.), Shida Tan (Saratoga, Calif.), Martin Von Haartman (Portland, Ore.), Mauro Kobrinsky (Portland, Ore.), Amir Raveh (Haifa, Israel) and Clifford J. Engle (Hillsboro, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques and structures are disclosed related to coupling to gate-all-around transistors for test and/or debug of...