US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Sept. 30 for "Method and apparatus for supplying power to VLSI silicon chips" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,432, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Method and apparatus for supplying power to VLSI silicon chips" was invented by Hassan Naser (Austin, Texas) and Daniel Stasiak (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit module, system and method of providing power and signals is disclosed that includes a silicon chip and a package substrate having voltage connections and signal connections. The silicon chip includes a silicon substrate having a top surface, a bottom surface and circuitry formed therein, one or more front-side metal layers formed on the top surfa...