ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,543,555, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Backside routing implementation in SRAM arrays" was invented by Mohamed H. Abu-Rahma (Mountain View, Calif.), Antonietta Oliva (San Francisco), Ajay Bhatia (Saratoga, Calif.) and Shahzad Nazar (Fremont, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various implementations of backside and topside routing of bitlines and wordlines in memory arrays are disclosed. Bitlines in backside and topside metal layers may be alternated between adjacent bit cells in a memory array. Alternating the location of the bitlines between bit cells in the memory array may reduce bitline capacit...