US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on June 3 for "Local interconnect for cross coupling" (New Hampshire, California, New York, Vermont Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,652, issued on June 3, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Local interconnect for cross coupling" was invented by Heng Wu (Santa Clara, Calif.), Ruilong Xie (Niskayuna, N.Y.), Albert M. Chu (Nashua, N.H.), Albert M. Young (Fishkill, N.Y.), Junli Wang (Slingerlands, N.Y.) and Brent A. Anderson (Jericho, Vt.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of present invention provide a transistor structure. The transistor structure includes a first and a second transistor in a first transistor layer; a first and a second transistor in a second transistor layer, respectively, above the first and the second t...