US Patent Issued to Kepler Computing on March 25 for "Trench capacitors with shared electrode" (American, Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,541, issued on March 25, was assigned to Kepler Computing Inc. (San Francisco).

"Trench capacitors with shared 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 interconnect, an etch stop layer late...