US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on Feb. 10 for "Protection diode to prevent charge damage during MOL" (New York, Vermont Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,448, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Protection diode to prevent charge damage during MOL" was invented by Huimei Zhou (Albany, N.Y.), Terence Hook (Jericho Center, Vt.), Junli Wang (Slingerlands, N.Y.) and Miaomiao Wang (Albany, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit is presented including a protection diode including a plurality of first gates and a plurality of first source/drain (S/D) contacts and a device under test (DUT) including a plurality of second gates and a plurality of second S/D contacts, the DUT being electrically connected to the protection ...