US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on July 1 for "Staggered stacked circuits with increased effective width" (New Hampshire, New York, Vermont Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,458, issued on July 1, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Staggered stacked circuits with increased effective width" was invented by Brent A Anderson (Jericho, Vt.), Junli Wang (Slingerlands, N.Y.) and Albert Chu (Nashua, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor structure including a first logic cell having a first plurality of nanosheet devices along an axis and a second logic cell having a second plurality of nanosheet devices along the axis. Nanosheets of the second plurality of nanosheet devices are wider than nanosheets of the first plurality of nanosheet devices. The first logic cel...