US Patent Issued to Intel on Oct. 14 for "Backside electrical contact for PMOS epitaxial voltage supply" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,685, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Backside electrical contact for PMOS epitaxial voltage supply" was invented by Clifford Ong (Portland, Ore.), Zheng Guo (Portland, Ore.), Eirc A. Karl (Portland, Ore.), Smita Shridharan (Beaverton, Ore.), Mauro J. Kobrinsky (Portland, Ore.), Shem O. Ogadhoh (Beaverton, Ore.), Clifford J. Engel (Hillsboro, Ore.), Charles H. Wallace (Portland, Ore.) and Leonard P. Guler (Hillsboro, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein may be related to apparatuses, processes, systems, and techniques directed to electrical couplings between epitaxial ...