US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Nov. 25 for "Power distribution network with backside power rail" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,750, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Power distribution network with backside power rail" was invented by Tsung-Sheng Kang (Ballston Lake, N.Y.), Koichi Motoyama (Clifton Park, N.Y.), Oscar van der Straten (Guilderland Center, N.Y.) and Alexander Reznicek (Troy, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor structure includes a backside power rail disposed in a backside dielectric layer, and dielectric spacer layers laterally extending inwardly from opposing sidewalls of the backside dielectric layer and on a portion of a bottom surface of the backside power rail."

The ...