ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,323, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Semiconductor device including vertical transistor with back side power structure" was invented by Shih-Wei Peng (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Te-Hsin Chiu (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Jiann-Tyng Tzeng (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device including vertical transistors with a back side power structure, and methods of making the same are described. In one example, a described semiconductor structure includes: a gate structure including a gate pad and a gate contact on the gate pad; a first source region dispos...