US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Oct. 6 for "Vertical-transport field-effect transistors with shared backside power supply" (New Hampshire, New York, Vermont Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,757,717, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Vertical-transport field-effect transistors with shared backside power supply" was invented by Brent A. Anderson (Jericho, Vt.), Albert M. Chu (Nashua, N.H.), Ruilong Xie (Niskayuna, N.Y.) and Junli Wang (Slingerlands, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first VTFET is provided on a wafer. A second VTFET is adjacent to the first VTFET on the wafer. A backside power deliver network is on a backside of the wafer. A shared frontside contact is on a frontside of the wafer. The shared frontside contact is connected to a first top source/drain re...