US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Sept. 1 for "Backside programmable gate array" (New York, Vermont, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,242, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Backside programmable gate array" was invented by Albert M. Chu (Nashua, N.H.), Brent A. Anderson (Jericho, Vt.), Junli Wang (Slingerlands, N.Y.), Albert M. Young (Fishkill, N.Y.), Ruilong Xie (Niskayuna, N.Y.) and Carl Radens (LaGrangeville, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present invention are directed to processing methods and resulting structures for integrated circuits having backside programmable gate arrays. In a non-limiting embodiment, a front end of line structure having an array of transistors is formed suc...