US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on March 24 for "Pillar based memory (MRAM) embedded within the buried power rail within a backside power distribution network" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,216, issued on March 24, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Pillar based memory (MRAM) embedded within the buried power rail within a backside power distribution network" was invented by Wu-Chang Tsai (Albany, N.Y.), Alexander Reznicek (Troy, N.Y.), Michael Rizzolo (Delmar, N.Y.) and Ailian Zhao (Slingerlands, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus comprising a backside power distribution network; a backside power rail joined to the backside power distribution network; and a backside contact via that couples at least one front end of line transistor to the backside power rail; wherein th...