ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,733,248, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Gate link across gate cut in semiconductor devices" was invented by Leonard P. Guler (Hillsboro, Ore.), Shengsi Liu (Portland, Ore.), Saurabh Acharya (Hillsboro, Ore.), Thomas Obrien (Portland, Ore.), Krishna Ganesan (Portland, Ore.), Ankit Kirit Lakhani (Hillsboro, Ore.), Prabhjot Kaur Luthra (Portland, Ore.), Nidhi Khandelwal (Portland, Ore.), Clifford J. Engel (Hillsboro, Ore.), Baofu Zhu (Portland, Ore.) and Meenakshisundaram Ramanathan (Hillsboro, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques to form an integrated circuit having a gate cut between adjac...