ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,153, issued on July 14, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Sensor for thermal dissipation measurement" was invented by Huimei Zhou (Albany, N.Y.), Oleg Gluschenkov (Tannersville, N.Y.), Ruilong Xie (Niskayuna, N.Y.), Xiaoming Yang (Clifton Park, N.Y.), Jingyu Lian (Hopewell Junction, N.Y.), Miaomiao Wang (Albany, N.Y.), Haojun Zhang (Schenectady, N.Y.) and Huiming Bu (Glenmont, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A structure is provided that includes a thermal dissipation measurement sensor located on the frontside or the backside of a semiconductor device. The thermal dissipation measurement senso...