ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,543,558, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Self-aligned interconnect features for transistor contacts" was invented by Leonard P. Guler (Hillsboro, Ore.), Chanaka D. Munasinghe (Portland, Ore.), Manish Chandhok (Beaverton, Ore.), Charles H. Wallace (Portland, Ore.) and Tahir Ghani (Portland, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit includes (i) a first transistor device having a first source or drain region coupled to a first source or drain contact, and a first gate electrode, (ii) a second transistor device having a second source or drain region coupled to a second source or drain con...