MUMBAI, India, March 15 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517016083 A) filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, U.S.A., on Feb. 24, for 'backside contacts for signal routing.'
Inventor(s) include Alptekin, Emre; and Oliva, Antonietta.
The application for the patent was published on March 14, under issue no. 11/2025.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A cell layout that may be implemented in FinFET devices or other FET devices is disclosed. The cell layout utilizes an isolation gate structure to provide routing between a signal input of an active gate and a backside metal layer. The isolation gate structure includes a metal fill surrounded by gate spacers. The metal fill conn...