US Patent Issued to GLOBALFOUNDRIES U.S. on Oct. 7 for "Local interconnect power rails and upper power rails" (California, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,078, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to GLOBALFOUNDRIES U.S. Inc. (Malta, N.Y.).

"Local interconnect power rails and upper power rails" was invented by James P. Mazza (Saratoga Springs, N.Y.), Navneet K. Jain (Milpitas, Calif.), Xuelian Zhu (San Jose, Calif.), Jia Zeng (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Mahbub Rashed (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to semiconductor structures and, more particularly, to local interconnect power rails merged with upper power rails and methods of manufacture. The structure includes: an active cell including contacts enclosed in active regions; at least one local inter...