ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,786, issued on June 10, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"Decoupling capacitors with back side power rails" was invented by Kam-Tou Sio (Zhubei, Taiwan) and Jiann-Tyng Tzeng (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a substrate having a first side and a second side; an active region arranged on the first side, and extending along a first lateral direction; a first gate structure arranged on the first side, extending along a second lateral direction perpendicular to the first lateral direction, disposed over the active region, and wrapping a first ...