US Patent Issued to Intel on Sept. 8 for "Non-epitaxial electrical coupling between a front side trench connector and back side contacts of a transistor" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,733,200, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Non-epitaxial electrical coupling between a front side trench connector and back side contacts of a transistor" was invented by Shaun Mills (Hillsboro, Ore.), Ehren Mannebach (Tigard, Ore.), Joseph D'Silva (Hillsboro, Ore.), Kalyan Kolluru (Portland, Ore.) and Mauro J. Kobrinsky (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein may be related to creating a low resistance electrical path within a transistor between a front side trench connector and back side contacts and/or metal layers of the transistor. The low resistance electrical...