US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on June 16 for "Cross-coupling connections for stacked field effect transistors" (New York, California, New Hampshire, Vermont Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,660,261, issued on June 16, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Cross-coupling connections for stacked field effect transistors" was invented by Ruilong Xie (Niskayuna, N.Y.), Heng Wu (Santa Clara, Calif.), Albert M. Young (Fishkill, N.Y.), Albert M Chu (Nashua, N.H.), Junli Wang (Slingerlands, N.Y.) and Brent A Anderson (Jericho, Vt.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device including a first pair of stacked transistors comprising a first upper transistor and a first lower transistor, a third transistor disposed adjacent to the first lower transistor, the third transistor comprising a gate ...