ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,551, issued on June 24, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Capacitor architectures in semiconductor devices" was invented by Sudipto Naskar (Portland, Ore.), Manish Chandhok (Beaverton, Ore.), Abhishek A. Sharma (Portland, Ore.), Roman Caudillo (Portland, Ore.), Scott B. Clendenning (Portland, Ore.) and Cheyun Lin (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments herein describe techniques for a semiconductor device including a three dimensional capacitor. The three dimensional capacitor includes a pole, and one or more capacitor units stacked around the pole. A capacitor unit of the one or more capacitor un...