US Patent Issued to Applied Materials on Dec. 9 for "Self-aligned wide backside power rail contacts to multiple transistor sources" (Singaporean, American, Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,582, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Applied Materials Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Self-aligned wide backside power rail contacts to multiple transistor sources" was invented by Suketu Arun Parikh (San Jose, Calif.), Ashish Pal (San Ramon, Calif.), El Mehdi Bazizi (San Jose, Calif.), Andrew Yeoh (Portland, Ore.), Nitin K. Ingle (San Jose, Calif.), Arvind Sundarrajan (Singapore), Guan Huei See (Singapore), Martinus Maria Berkens (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Sameer A. Deshpande (Santa Clara, Calif.), Balasubramanian Pranatharthiharan (San Jose, Calif.) and Yen-Chu Yang (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of form...