ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,705, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to GLOBALFOUNDRIES SINGAPORE PTE LTD (Singapore).
"Thin film resistor with viabar structure" was invented by Eejan Khor (Singapore), Wanbing Yi (Singapore), Qiying Wong (Singapore) and Feifei He (Singapore).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A thin-film resistor (TFR) includes conductive line(s) and a resistive layer over the conductive line(s). The TFR also includes at least one viabar structure coupled to the resistive layer and including a first viabar portion electrically connected to the resistive layer at an edge thereof and a second viabar portion electrically connected to the conductive line(s)...