US Patent Issued to Intel on April 22 for "Fin end plug structures for advanced integrated circuit structure fabrication" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,826, issued on April 22, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Fin end plug structures for advanced integrated circuit structure fabrication" was invented by Byron Ho (Hillsboro, Ore.), Chun-Kuo Huang (Portland, Ore.), Erica Thompson (Beaverton, Ore.), Jeanne Luce (Hillsboro, Ore.), Michael L. Hattendorf (Portland, Ore.), Christopher P. Auth (Portland, Ore.) and Ebony L. Mays (Hillsboro, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the disclosure are in the field of advanced integrated circuit structure fabrication and, in particular, 10 nanometer node and smaller integrated circuit structure fabrication and the re...