ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,465, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Structure for backside signal and power" was invented by Lawrence A. Clevenger (Saratoga Springs, N.Y.), Ruilong Xie (Niskayuna, N.Y.), Albert M. Chu (Nashua, N.H.), Nicholas Anthony Lanzillo (Wynantskill, N.Y.), Brent A. Anderson (Jericho, Vt.) and Reinaldo Vega (Mahopac, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to the embodiment of the present invention, a semiconductor device includes a first nanodevice comprised of a plurality of first transistors and a second nanodevice comprised of a plurality of second transistors. The second na...