US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Jan. 13 for "Two-dimensional self-aligned backside via-to-backside power rail (VBPR)" (New York, Vermont Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,068, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Two-dimensional self-aligned backside via-to-backside power rail (VBPR)" was invented by Ruilong Xie (Niskayuna, N.Y.), Kisik Choi (Watervliet, N.Y.), Brent A Anderson (Jericho, Vt.), Lawrence A. Clevenger (Saratoga Springs, N.Y.) and John Christopher Arnold (North Chatham, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor structure includes a field effect transistor (FET) including a first source-drain region, a second source-drain region, a gate between the first and second source-drain regions, and a channel region under the gate and b...