ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,782, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Integrated circuit structure with front side signal lines and backside power delivery" was invented by Quan Shi (Beaverton, Ore.), Sukru Yemenicioglu (Portland, Ore.), Marni Nabors (Portland, Ore.), Nikolay Ryzhenko (Beaverton, Ore.), Xinning Wang (Portland, Ore.) and Sivakumar Venkataraman (Hillsboro, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Integrated circuit structures having front side signal lines and backside power delivery are described. In an example, an integrated circuit structure includes a plurality of gate lines extending over a plurality of semiconduct...