US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Oct. 6 for "Power gating transistor for BSPDN" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,757,718, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Power gating transistor for BSPDN" was invented by Tao Li (Slingerlands, N.Y.) and Ruilong Xie (Niskayuna, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microelectronic architecture including a logic device and a header gate transistor located adjacent to a first side of the logic device. The header gate transistor has a parallel orientation to the logic device, and the header gate transistor is connected to a VSS source or a VDD source. Aa footer gate transistor located adjacent to a second side of the logic device and the footer gate transistor has...