US Patent Issued to GLOBALFOUNDRIES Singapore on Oct. 27 for "Capacitors with floating metal layers" (Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,924, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to GLOBALFOUNDRIES Singapore Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Capacitors with floating metal layers" was invented by Wanbing Yi (Singapore), Ee Jan Khor (Singapore), Jinglin Shi (Singapore) and Chio Yin Ong (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed subject matter relates generally to capacitors in semiconductor devices and integrated circuit (IC) chips. More particularly, the present disclosure relates to a metal-dielectric-metal capacitor having electrically floating metal layers and an interconnect level that is devoid of any metal layers. The present disclosure provides a capacitor having ...