ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,484,298, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Semiconductor structure with self-aligned backside power rail" was invented by Kuo-Cheng Chiang (Hsinchu County, Taiwan), Shi Ning Ju (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Kuan-Lun Cheng (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan) and Chih-Hao Wang (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a semiconductor structure that includes a substrate having a frontside and a backside; an active region extruded from the substrate and surrounded by an isolation feature; a gate stack formed on the front side of the substrate and disposed on th...