US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on June 23 for "Vertical transport transistor devices with back side interconnects" (New York, New Hampshire, Vermont Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,682, issued on June 23, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Vertical transport transistor devices with back side interconnects" was invented by Ruilong Xie (Niskayuna, N.Y.), Brent A. Anderson (Jericho, Vt.), Lawrence A. Clevenger (Saratoga Springs, N.Y.), Nicholas Anthony Lanzillo (Wynantskill, N.Y.), Reinaldo Vega (Mahopac, N.Y.) and Albert M. Chu (Nashua, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor structure comprises a vertical transistor, a first contact connecting to a source/drain region at a first side of the vertical transistor, a second contact extending from the first side of the ...