US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Sept. 1 for "Power tap cell for front side power rail connection to BSPDN" (New York, Vermont, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,464, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Power tap cell for front side power rail connection to BSPDN" was invented by Albert M. Chu (Nashua, N.H.), Nicholas Anthony Lanzillo (Wynantskill, N.Y.), Albert M. Young (Fishkill, N.Y.), Junli Wang (Slingerlands, N.Y.), Brent A. Anderson (Jericho, Vt.), Ruilong Xie (Niskayuna, N.Y.), Lawrence A. Clevenger (Saratoga Springs, N.Y.) and Reinaldo Vega (Mahopac, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor structure is presented having a plurality of circuit rows, a plurality of first power rails positioned on front sides of the plurali...