ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,836, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Backside power plane" was invented by Ruilong Xie (Niskayuna, N.Y.), Nicholas Anthony Lanzillo (Wynantskill, N.Y.), Hosadurga Shobha (Niskayuna, N.Y.), Lawrence A. Clevenger (Saratoga Springs, N.Y.) and Huai Huang (Clifton Park, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments disclosed herein include a semiconductor structure. The semiconductor structure may include a first power plane electrically connected to a first plurality of via-to-backside power planes (VBPPs), a second power plane, and a plurality of pass through vias electrically...