ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,780, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Integrated circuit structure with recessed self-aligned deep boundary via" was invented by Mohit Haran (Hillsboro, Ore.), Sukru Yemenicioglu (Portland, Ore.), Pratik Patel (Portland, Ore.), Charles H. Wallace (Portland, Ore.), Leonard P. Guler (Hillsboro, Ore.), Conor P. Puls (Portland, Ore.), Makram Abd El Qader (Hillsboro, Ore.) and Tahir Ghani (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Integrated circuit structures having recessed self-aligned deep boundary vias are described. For example, an integrated circuit structure includes a plurality of gate li...