US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on July 14 for "Semiconductor structures including metal wires with edge curvature" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,111, issued on July 14, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Semiconductor structures including metal wires with edge curvature" was invented by Oscar van der Straten (Guilderland Center, N.Y.), Shanti Pancharatnam (Albany, N.Y.) and Chih-Chao Yang (Glenmont, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor structure that includes: a plurality of metal wires, and at least one dielectric substrate surrounding the plurality of metal wires. Each of the plurality of metal wires includes a tapered upper portion, a tapered lower portion, and a middle portion between the tapered upper portion and the tap...