US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on Sept. 8 for "Cross coupled stacked transistors" (New York, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,733,256, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Cross coupled stacked transistors" was invented by Tsung-Sheng Kang (Ballston Lake, N.Y.), Albert M. Chu (Nashua, N.H.), Tao Li (Slingerlands, N.Y.) and Chih-Chao Yang (Glenmont, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor structure including a first stacked transistor structure adjacent to a second stacked transistor structure, and a first conductive structure in direct contact with and electrically connecting a bottom gate conductor of the first stacked transistor structure and a top gate conductor of the second stacked transistor...