US Patent Issued to Intel on May 13 for "Backend electrostatic discharge diode apparatus and method of fabricating the same" (California, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,643, issued on May 13, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Backend electrostatic discharge diode apparatus and method of fabricating the same" was invented by Prashant Majhi (San Jose, Calif.), Ilya Karpov (Portland, Ore.), Brian Doyle (Portland, Ore.), Ravi Pillarisetty (Portland, Ore.) and Abhishek Sharma (Hillsboro, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A backend electrostatic discharge (ESD) diode device structure is presented comprising: a first structure comprising a first material, wherein the first material includes metal; a second structure adjacent to the first structure, wherein the second structure comprises...