US Patent Issued to Intel on May 27 for "Power gating for multiple backside voltage planes" (Oregon Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,312, issued on May 27, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Power gating for multiple backside voltage planes" was invented by Scott A. Olsen (Gales Creek, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Power gating for multiple backside voltage planes is described. For example, an integrated circuit (IC) may include a power gate that includes a first transistor having a first source diffusion that includes a first input terminal and a first drain diffusion that includes a first output terminal; a second transistor having a second source diffusion that includes a second input terminal and a second drain diffusion that includes a ...