ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,842, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Microelectronic structures including bridges" was invented by Omkar G. Karhade (Chandler, Ariz.), Nitin A. Deshpande (Chandler, Ariz.), Mohit Bhatia (Chandler, Ariz.) and Debendra Mallik (Chandler, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are microelectronic structures including bridges, and related assemblies and methods. In some embodiments, a microelectronic structure may include a substrate with first and second metal layers; a cavity in the substrate, where a portion of the first and second metal layers, are exposed with the portion of the ...