US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on May 19 for "Stacked devices with backside contacts" (New York, New Hampshire, Vermont Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,635,498, issued on May 19, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor structure includes a stacked device structure containing a first device and a second device over the first device in a stacked configuration. The semiconductor structure further includes a first backside contact connected t...