US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on May 20 for "Middle of line structure with stacked devices" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,072, issued on May 20, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Middle of line structure with stacked devices" was invented by Junli Wang (Slingerlands, N.Y.), Su Chen Fan (Cohoes, N.Y.), Ruqiang Bao (Niskayuna, N.Y.) and Albert M. Young (Fishkill, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A field effect device is provided. The field effect device includes a lower active gate structure on a substrate, and a first lower source/drain on a first side of the lower active gate structure. The field effect device further includes a second lower source/drain on a second side of the lower active gate structure opposite...