US Patent Issued to Intel on Sept. 8 for "Integrated circuit structures with backside self-aligned conductive source or drain contact" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,733,221, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Integrated circuit structures with backside self-aligned conductive source or drain contact" was invented by Leonard P. Guler (Hillsboro, Ore.), Sean Pursel (Hillsboro, Ore.), Raghuram Gandikota (Portland, Ore.), Sikandar Abbas (Forest Grove, Ore.), Tsuan-Chung Chang (Portland, Ore.), Mauro J. Kobrinsky (Portland, Ore.), Tahir Ghani (Portland, Ore.) and Elliot N. Tan (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Integrated circuit structures having backside self-aligned conductive source or drain contacts, and methods of fabricating integrated circuit struct...