US Patent Issued to GlobalFoundries U.S. on June 16 for "Machine-readable code in integrated circuit" (Vermont Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,660,635, issued on June 16, was assigned to GlobalFoundries U.S. Inc. (Malta, N.Y.).

"Machine-readable code in integrated circuit" was invented by Alain F. Loiseau (Williston, Vt.), Romain H.A. Feuillette (Williston, Vt.), Mujahid Muhammad (Essex Junction, Vt.) and Peter T. Coutu (Williston, Vt.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit (IC) includes a plurality of metal layers, and a machine-readable code in a selected metal layer of the plurality of metal layers. A wafer includes a plurality of the ICs. An IC wafer testing system includes a scanner configured to read the machine-readable code in the metal layer of the IC in ...