ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,653,009, issued on June 9, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Negative-tone organic dielectric with fine metal pillar resolution" was invented by Nicholas Latham (Albany, N.Y.), Junwon Han (Loudonville, N.Y.), Kishan Jayanand (Cohoes, N.Y.), Nicholas Alexander Polomoff (Hopewell Junction, N.Y.), Aakrati Jain (Albany, N.Y.), Mary McGahay (Troy, N.Y.) and Sathyanarayanan Raghavan (Ballston Lake, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of present invention provide a method. The method includes forming a set of metal pillars on a substrate; forming a negative-tone organic dielectric layer covering t...