US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Nov. 3 for "Embedded jumper connection" (New York, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,787,358, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Embedded jumper connection" was invented by Reinaldo Vega (Mahopac, N.Y.), Ruilong Xie (Niskayuna, N.Y.), Nicholas Anthony Lanzillo (Wynantskill, N.Y.), Albert M. Chu (Nashua, N.H.) and David Wolpert (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes an active region layer having source/drain regions laterally disposed relative to one another in a row and having a zone bounded between adjacent source/drain regions. An embedded jumper is electrically connected to two adjacent source/drain regions within the zone...