US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Aug. 5 for "Power gating dummy power transistors for back side power delivery networks" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,719, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Power gating dummy power transistors for back side power delivery networks" was invented by Tao Li (Slingerlands, N.Y.), Ruilong Xie (Niskayuna, N.Y.) and Kangguo Cheng (Schenectady, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor chip device includes a substrate with a back end of line layer and a backside power delivery network. An input power line is electrically coupled to the backside power delivery network. Dummy transistors are positioned in a circuit with analog or digital circuit elements. A power gating transistor is positioned ...