US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Aug. 18 for "Fly-over metal jumper connection" (New York, New Hampshire, Vermont Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,713,900, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Fly-over metal jumper connection" was invented by Nicholas Anthony Lanzillo (Wynantskill, N.Y.), Ruilong Xie (Niskayuna, N.Y.), Brent A. Anderson (Jericho, Vt.), Albert M. Chu (Nashua, N.H.), Reinaldo Vega (Mahopac, N.Y.) and Lawrence A. Clevenger (Saratoga Springs, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An interconnect device has a first layer with a first metal line, a second metal line, and a third metal line, a second layer with a metal jumper and a metal via. The metal jumper is electrically connected to the first metal line and the secon...