ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,456, issued on March 31, was assigned to Kepler Computing Inc. (San Francisco).

"Method of fabricating transistors and stacked non-planar capacitors for memory and logic applications" was invented by Rajeev Kumar Dokania (Beaverton, Ore.), Noriyuki Sato (Hillsboro, Ore.), Tanay Gosavi (Portland, Ore.), Rafael Rios (Austin, Texas), Amrita Mathuriya (Portland, Ore.), Niloy Mukherjee (San Ramon, Calif.), Somilkumar J. Rathi (San Jose, Calif.) and Sasikanth Manipatruni (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of fabricating a system includes fabricating a plurality of transistors and coupling a forming a bridge structure ...