US Patent Issued to Intel on July 15 for "Integrated circuit structures having metal gates with tapered plugs" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,002, issued on July 15, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Integrated circuit structures having metal gates with tapered plugs" was invented by Mohammad Hasan (Aloha, Ore.), Biswajeet Guha (Hillsboro, Ore.), Oleg Golonzka (Beaverton, Ore.), Leonard P. Guler (Hillsboro, Ore.), Leah Shoer (Beaverton, Ore.), Daniel G. Ouellette (Portland, Ore.), Pedro Franco Navarro (Portland, Ore.) and Tahir Ghani (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Integrated circuit structures having metal gates with tapered plugs, and methods of fabricating integrated circuit structures having metal gates with tapered plugs, are described...