US Patent Issued to Altera on May 19 for "Three-dimensional columnar input-output (IO) circuitry for integrated circuit device" (American, Malaysian, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,925, issued on May 19, was assigned to Altera Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Three-dimensional columnar input-output (IO) circuitry for integrated circuit device" was invented by Mahesh K. Kumashikar (Bangalore, India), Ankireddy Nalamalpu (Portland, Ore.), Atul Maheshwari (Portland, Ore.) and Lai Guan Tang (Tanjung Bungah, Malaysia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure is directed to methods of disaggregating columnar IO operations from a programmable logic fabric using 3-D packaging technology. More specifically, methods of 3-D programmable fabric arrangements that include one or more IO chiplets stacked in a 3-D orientation on...