US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on July 14 for "Metal wires with expanded sidewalls" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,103, issued on July 14, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Metal wires with expanded sidewalls" was invented by Oscar van der Straten (Guilderland Center, N.Y.), Willie Lester Muchrison Jr. (Troy, N.Y.) and Chih-Chao Yang (Glenmont, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor structure including a homogeneous interconnect structure embedded in a dielectric layer, where the homogeneous interconnect structure includes a third region vertically aligned above a second region vertically aligned above a first region, the third region includes three sections: an upper section including a first wid...