US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Aug. 25 for "VTFET circuit with optimized MOL" (New Hampshire, New York, Vermont Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,860, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"VTFET circuit with optimized MOL" was invented by Brent A. Anderson (Jericho, Vt.), Albert M. Chu (Nashua, N.H.), Lawrence A. Clevenger (Saratoga Springs, N.Y.), Nicholas Anthony Lanzillo (Wynantskill, N.Y.) and Ruilong Xie (Niskayuna, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Integrated circuits and related logic circuits and structures employing VTFET logic devices. In particular, during middle-of-line (MOL) processing, method steps are employed for forming two-level MOL contact connector structures below first (M1) metallization level wiring f...