ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,184, issued on June 17, was assigned to Kepler Computing Inc. (San Francisco).

"Methods of fabricating trench capacitors on a shared plate electrode" 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 interconne...