US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on July 28 for "Backside BPR/BSPDN integration with backside local interconnect" (New York, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,746, issued on July 28, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Backside BPR/BSPDN integration with backside local interconnect" was invented by Albert M. Chu (Nashua, N.H.), Lawrence A. Clevenger (Saratoga Springs, N.Y.), Nicholas Anthony Lanzillo (Wynantskill, N.Y.), Huai Huang (Clifton Park, N.Y.) and Ruilong Xie (Niskayuna, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes backside power rails located between N channel field effect transistor to N channel field effect transistor spaces, and between at least one P channel field effect transistor to P channel field effect transistor ...