US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Sept. 8 for "Forksheet field effect transistor including t-shaped backbone" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,733,245, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Forksheet field effect transistor including t-shaped backbone" was invented by Tsung-Sheng Kang (Ballston Lake, N.Y.), Sagarika Mukesh (Albany, N.Y.), Alexander Reznicek (Troy, N.Y.) and Ruilong Xie (Niskayuna, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a first-type transistor, a second-type transistor, and a t-shaped backbone. The first-type transistor includes a first-type source/drain and the second-type transistor includes a second-type source/drain. The t-shaped backbone includes a wall and a sub-wall. The wall...