US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on Dec. 30 for "Stacked vertical transport field effect transistor with anchors" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,980, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Stacked vertical transport field effect transistor with anchors" was invented by Chen Zhang (Albany, N.Y.), Kangguo Cheng (Schenectady, N.Y.), Tenko Yamashita (Schenectady, N.Y.), Wenyu Xu (Albany, N.Y.) and Fee Li Lie (Albany, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques regarding anchors for fins comprised within stacked VTFET devices are provided. For example, one or more embodiments described herein can comprise an apparatus, which can further comprise a fin extending from a semiconductor body. The fin can be comprised within a stacke...