ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,116, issued on March 25, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"Backside signal routing" was invented by Ching-Yu Huang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Wei-Cheng Lin (Taichung, Taiwan), Shih-Wei Peng (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Jiann-Tyng Tzeng (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Yi-Kan Cheng (Taipei, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, an integrated circuit device includes a substrate having a frontside and a backside; one or more active semiconductor devices formed on the frontside of the substrate; conductive paths formed on the frontside of the substrate; and conductive paths formed on the backsid...