US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on March 31 for "Stacked fork sheet devices" (New York, Vermont Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,501, issued on March 31, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Stacked fork sheet devices" was invented by Ruilong Xie (Niskayuna, N.Y.), Julien Frougier (Albany, N.Y.), Brent A. Anderson (Jericho, Vt.) and Chen Zhang (Guilderland, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor structure is provided that includes a first pair of stacked devices located in a first active device region and a second pair of stacked devices located in a second active device region. Each stacked device of the pair of stacked devices includes a second field effect transistor (FET) stacked over a first FET, and within ...