US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on July 15 for "Transistors with dual power and signal lines" (New York, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,278, issued on July 15, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Transistors with dual power and signal lines" was invented by Tao Li (Slingerlands, N.Y.), Ruilong Xie (Niskayuna, N.Y.), David Wolpert (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.) and Albert M. Chu (Nashua, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor structure includes a first field-effect transistor having a first back side source/drain contact, a second back side source/drain contact, and a first power line and a first signal line each connected to the first back side source/drain contact and the second back side source/drain contact, respectively. The ...