US Patent Issued to Tahoe Research on July 8 for "Cobalt based interconnects and methods of fabrication thereof" (Oregon, Idaho Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,956, issued on July 8, was assigned to Tahoe Research Ltd. (Dublin).

"Cobalt based interconnects and methods of fabrication thereof" was invented by Christopher J. Jezewski (Portland, Ore.), Tejaswi K. Indukuri (Boise, Idaho), Ramanan V. Chebiam (Hillsboro, Ore.) and Colin T. Carver (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment includes a metal interconnect structure, comprising: a dielectric layer disposed on a substrate; an opening in the dielectric layer, wherein the opening has sidewalls and exposes a conductive region of at least one of the substrate and an interconnect line; an adhesive layer, comprising manganese...