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Tela Innovations Assigned Patent
[July 13, 2012]

Tela Innovations Assigned Patent


(Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) By Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 13 -- Tela Innovations, Los Gatos, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,217,428) developed by Scott T. Becker, San Jose, Calif., and Michael C. Smayling, San Jose, Calif., for an "integrated circuit including gate electrode level region including at least three linear-shaped conductive structures of equal length having aligned ends and positioned at equal pitch and forming multiple gate electrodes of transistors of different type." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A cell of a semiconductor device is disclosed to include a diffusion level including a plurality of diffusion regions separated by inactive regions. The cell also includes a gate electrode level including a number of conductive features defined to extend in only a first parallel direction. Each of the conductive features within the gate electrode level is fabricated from a respective originating rectangular-shaped layout feature. The gate electrode level includes conductive features defined along at least four different virtual lines of extent in the first parallel direction. A width of the conductive features within the gate electrode level is measured perpendicular to the first parallel direction and is less than a wavelength of light used in a photolithography process to fabricate the conductive features. The cell also includes a number of interconnect levels formed above the gate electrode level." The patent application was filed on Sept. 30, 2009 (12/571,351). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=8,217,428&OS=8,217,428&RS=8,217,428 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar.



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