US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Aug. 4 for "Inverter with backside power delivery network" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,788, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Inverter with backside power delivery network" was invented by Tao Li (Slingerlands, N.Y.), Ruilong Xie (Niskayuna, N.Y.), Tsung-Sheng Kang (Ballston Lake, N.Y.) and Oleg Gluschenkov (Tannersville, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a first field effect transistor (FET) and a second FET arranged under the first FET to form a stack on the frontside of a wafer. A Middle of Line (MOL) contact has a first end connected to a source or drain of the first FET, and a second end connected to a first voltage node. A dir...