US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on Oct. 20 for "Backside metal track capacitance for write assist" (Pennsylvania, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,681, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Backside metal track capacitance for write assist" was invented by Cagri Erbagci (Pittsburgh) and Lalit Gupta (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrical device including a substrate having a frontside surface and a backside surface and a back-side insulating layer with back-side metal tracks therein, the back-side insulating layer located on the backside surface. At least portions of an adjacent pair of the back-side metal tracks generate a back-side boost capacitance connected between a first node coupled to a gate contact of a transistor...