ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,362, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Integrated circuit structures having ultra-high conductivity global routing" was invented by Abhishek Anil Sharma (Portland, Ore.), Tahir Ghani (Portland, Ore.), Anand S. Murthy (Portland, Ore.), Sagar Suthram (Portland, Ore.), Pushkar Ranade (San Jose, Calif.), Wilfred Gomes (Portland, Ore.), Rishabh Mehandru (Portland, Ore.) and Cory Weber (Hillsboro, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Structures having ultra-high conductivity global routing are described. In an example, an integrated circuit structure includes a device layer having a plurality of transist...