US Patent Issued to Regents of the University of Minnesota, The University of Texas at Dallas on March 18 for "Nanowire-based interconnects for sub-millimeter wave integrated circuit applications" (Minnesota, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,108, issued on March 18, was assigned to Regents of the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis) and The University of Texas at Dallas (Richardson, Texas).

"Nanowire-based interconnects for sub-millimeter wave integrated circuit applications" was invented by Rhonda Franklin (Minneapolis), Aditya Dave (Minneapolis), Yali Zhang (Minneapolis), Bethanie Joyce Hills Stadler (Minneapolis), Allison Harpel (Minneapolis), Rashaunda Henderson (Austin, Texas) and Nikita Mahjabeen (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device includes a substrate and at least one electrically conducting portion supported by the substrate, the at least one...