ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,326, issued on July 22, was assigned to Kepler Computing Inc. (San Francisco).

"Capacitor devices with shared electrode and methods of fabrication" was invented by Noriyuki Sato (Hillsboro, Ore.), Tanay Gosavi (Portland, Ore.), Rafael Rios (Austin, Texas), Amrita Mathuriya (Portland, Ore.), Niloy Mukherjee (San Ramon, Calif.), Mauricio Manfrini (Heverlee, Belgium), Rajeev Kumar Dokania (Beaverton, Ore.), Somilkumar J. Rathi (San Jose, Calif.) and Sasikanth Manipatruni (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device structure comprises a first conductive interconnect, an electrode structure on the first conductive interconnect...