US Patent Issued to Intel on Sept. 2 for "Integrated circuit structures with backside gate cut or trench contact cut" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,422, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Integrated circuit structures with backside gate cut or trench contact cut" was invented by Leonard P. Guler (Hillsboro, Ore.), Charles H. Wallace (Portland, Ore.) and Tahir Ghani (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Integrated circuit structures having backside gate cut or backside trench contact cut, and methods of fabricating integrated circuit structures having backside gate cut or backside trench contact cut, are described. For example, an integrated circuit structure includes a first sub-fin structure over a first stack of nanowires. A second ...