US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Feb. 10 for "VTFET circuit with optimized output" (New York, New Hampshire, Vermont Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,719, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"VTFET circuit with optimized output" was invented by Nicholas Anthony Lanzillo (Wynantskill, N.Y.), Brent A. Anderson (Jericho, Vt.), Lawrence A. Clevenger (Saratoga Springs, N.Y.), Ruilong Xie (Niskayuna, N.Y.), Albert M. Chu (Nashua, N.H.) and Reinaldo Vega (Mahopac, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes: a first via level forming a bottom jumper configured to provide an output; a first set of two or more first metallization tracks overlying the first via level; a second via level forming a first top jumper o...