US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on July 14 for "Local frontside power rail with global backside power delivery" (New York, New Hampshire, Vermont Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,134, issued on July 14, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Local frontside power rail with global backside power delivery" was invented by Nicholas Anthony Lanzillo (Wynantskill, N.Y.), Albert M. Chu (Nashua, N.H.), Brent A. Anderson (Jericho, Vt.), Lawrence A. Clevenger (Saratoga Springs, N.Y.), Ruilong Xie (Niskayuna, N.Y.) and Reinaldo Vega (Mahopac, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for forming a semiconductor device includes forming a front side of the semiconductor device, the front side comprising a metal wire M2, and a plurality of power rails coupled to the M2. Further, the meth...