US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on Dec. 2 for "Different dimensions across active region for stronger via to backside power rail" (New York, New Hampshire, Vermont Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,507, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Different dimensions across active region for stronger via to backside power rail" was invented by Ruilong Xie (Niskayuna, N.Y.), Albert M. Chu (Nashua, N.H.), Carl Radens (LaGrangeville, N.Y.) and Brent A. Anderson (Jericho, Vt.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to the embodiment of the present invention, a semiconductor device includes a first nanodevice and a second nanodevice. The second nanodevice is located adjacent to and parallel to the first nanodevice along a first axis. The first nanodevice and the second nanodevice each inc...