US Patent Issued to Intel on Dec. 16 for "Integrated circuit structures with backside self-aligned penetrating conductive source or drain contact" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,684, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Integrated circuit structures with backside self-aligned penetrating conductive source or drain contact" was invented by Leonard P. Guler (Hillsboro, Ore.), Mauro J. Kobrinsky (Portland, Ore.), Ehren Mannebach (Tigard, Ore.), Makram Abd El Qader (Hillsboro, Ore.) and Tahir Ghani (Portland, Ore.).

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