ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,744, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Subtractively patterned interconnect structures for integrated circuits" was invented by Kevin Lin (Beaverton, Ore.), Noriyuki Sato (Hillsboro, Ore.), Tristan Tronic (Aloha, Ore.), Michael Christenson (Beaverton, Ore.), Christopher Jezewski (Portland, Ore.), Jiun-Ruey Chen (Hillsboro, Ore.), James M. Blackwell (Portland, Ore.), Matthew Metz (Portland, Ore.), Miriam Reshotko (Portland, Ore.), Nafees Kabir (Hillsboro, Ore.), Jeffery Bielefeld (Forest Grove, Ore.), Manish Chandhok (Beaverton, Ore.), Hui Jae Yoo (Hillsboro, Ore.), Elijah Karpov (Portland, Ore.), Carl Naylor (Portland, Ore.) and Ramanan Chebiam...