ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,273, issued on March 24, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Stacked electronic devices having independent gates" was invented by Min Gyu Sung (Latham, N.Y.), Ruilong Xie (Niskayuna, N.Y.), Julien Frougier (Albany, N.Y.), Chanro Park (Clifton Park, N.Y.) and Juntao Li (Cohoes, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the invention are directed to an integrated circuit (IC) that includes a stacked device configuration having a top electronic device positioned over a bottom electronic device, along with an isolation region operable to electrically isolate at least a gate region of the top e...