US Patent Issued to Intel on Sept. 22 for "Transistor backside routing layers with contacts having varying depths" (Oregon Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,745,442, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Transistor backside routing layers with contacts having varying depths" was invented by Shaun Mills (Hillsboro, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein may be related to apparatuses, processes, and techniques directed to creating backside routing layer in a transistor, and in particular to creating contacts with different depths in the backside routing layer in order to provide more precise connections with backside metal layers (BM0) that may be on an opposite side of a wafer. Existing openings, or holes, within a front side transi...