US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on June 9 for "Double-sided integrated circuit with electrostatic guard ring" (New York, Vermont, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,653,030, issued on June 9, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Double-sided integrated circuit with electrostatic guard ring" was invented by Nicholas Alexander Polomoff (Hopewell Junction, N.Y.), Terence Hook (Jericho Center, Vt.), Matthew Stephen Angyal (Stormville, N.Y.), Brent A. Anderson (Jericho, Vt.), Lawrence A. Clevenger (Saratoga Springs, N.Y.), Kisik Choi (Watervliet, N.Y.), Fee Li Lie (Albany, N.Y.), Ruilong Xie (Niskayuna, N.Y.) and Lei Zhuang (Ridgefield, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A structure includes a semiconductor substrate; a plurality of first dielectric layers at a top side...