US Patent Issued to Analog Devices on July 14 for "Isolated metal clips with structural bridge" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,193, issued on July 14, was assigned to Analog Devices Inc. (Wilmington, Mass.).

"Isolated metal clips with structural bridge" was invented by Hien Minh Pham (Fremont, Calif.), Melvin Sto Domingo Nava (Morgan Hill, Calif.) and John David Brazzle (Tracy, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, and systems, are presented for a Structural Bridge for Electrically Isolated Metal Clips by mounting on a substrate a first and a second circuit. These first and second circuits can include Component on Package (CoP) electronic parts that are electrically contacted to the substrate with metal clips mounted on the surface of the substrate....