US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on April 7 for "Metal insulator metal capacitor (MIM capacitor)" (New York, Vermont Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,986, issued on April 7, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Metal insulator metal capacitor (MIM capacitor)" was invented by Baozhen Li (South Burlington, Vt.), Chih-Chao Yang (Glenmont, N.Y.), Huimei Zhou (Albany, N.Y.) and Yueming Xu (Wappingers Falls, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device including a metal insulator metal capacitor (MIM capacitor) within back end of line circuitry of the semiconductor device, where the MIM capacitor surrounds a first Mx metal line. A semiconductor device including a metal insulator metal capacitor (MIM capacitor) within back end of line circu...