US Patent Issued to Intel on Sept. 1 for "Integrated circuit structures having uniform grid metal gate and trench contact plug" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,238, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Integrated circuit structures having uniform grid metal gate and trench contact plug" was invented by Leonard P. Guler (Hillsboro, Ore.), Sukru Yemenicioglu (Portland, Ore.), Mohit K. Haran (Hillsboro, Ore.), Stephen M. Cea (Hillsboro, Ore.), Charles H. Wallace (Portland, Ore.), Tahir Ghani (Portland, Ore.), Shengsi Liu (Portland, Ore.), Saurabh Acharya (Hillsboro, Ore.), Thomas O'Brien (Portland, Ore.), Nidhi Khandelwal (Portland, Ore.), Marie T. Conte (Hillsboro, Ore.) and Prabhjot Luthra (Hillsboro, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Integrated circuit st...