US Patent Issued to Intel on Feb. 3 for "Backside processing of fins in fin based transistor devices" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,543,367, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Backside processing of fins in fin based transistor devices" was invented by Tao Chu (Portland, Ore.), Minwoo Jang (Portland, Ore.), Aurelia Chi Wang (Hillsboro, Ore.), Conor Puls (Portland, Ore.), Brian Greene (Portland, Ore.), Tofizur Rahman (Portland, Ore.), Lin Hu (Portland, Ore.), Jaladhi Mehta (Beaverton, Ore.), Chung-Hsun Lin (Portland, Ore.) and Walid Hafez (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit includes a first source region, a first drain region, a first fin having (i) a first upper region laterally between the first sour...