US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on July 28 for "Back-end-of-line vertical-transport transistor" (California, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,484, issued on July 28, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Back-end-of-line vertical-transport transistor" was invented by Heng Wu (Santa Clara, Calif.), Julien Frougier (Albany, N.Y.), Ruilong Xie (Niskayuna, N.Y.) and Chen Zhang (Guilderland, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor structure including a bottom source drain region arranged above front-end-of-line circuitry, a gate region disposed above and insulated from the bottom source drain region, a top source drain region disposed above and insulated from the gate region, and a channel region adjacent to the gate region and exten...