US Patent Issued to Intel on April 1 for "Self-aligned interconnect structures and methods of fabrication" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,266,570, issued on April 1, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Self-aligned interconnect structures and methods of fabrication" was invented by Kimin Jun (Portland, Ore.), Souvik Ghosh (Beaverton, Ore.), Willy Rachmady (Beaverton, Ore.), Ashish Agrawal (Hillsboro, Ore.), Siddharth Chouksey (Portland, Ore.), Jessica Torres (Portland, Ore.), Jack Kavalieros (Portland, Ore.), Matthew Metz (Portland, Ore.), Ryan Keech (Portland, Ore.), Koustav Ganguly (Beaverton, Ore.) and Anand Murthy (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit interconnect structure includes a metallization level above a first devi...