US Patent Issued to Intel on Feb. 11 for "Self-aligned gate endcap (SAGE) architectures with gate-all-around devices" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,224,350, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Self-aligned gate endcap (SAGE) architectures with gate-all-around devices" was invented by Biswajeet Guha (Hillsboro, Ore.), William Hsu (Hillsboro, Ore.), Leonard P. Guler (Hillsboro, Ore.), Dax M. Crum (Beaverton, Ore.) and Tahir Ghani (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Self-aligned gate endcap (SAGE) architectures with gate-all-around devices, and methods of fabricating self-aligned gate endcap (SAGE) architectures with gate-all-around devices, are described. In an example, an integrated circuit structure includes a semiconductor fin above a s...