ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,011, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).
"Antenna protection on dummy metal fills" was invented by Hao Chen (Boise, Idaho), Raja Kumar Varma Manthena (Boise, Idaho) and Surendranath C. Eruvuru (Boise, Idaho).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory device can include a semiconductor substrate having a plurality of active semiconductor devices. The memory device can include a plurality of metallization layers disposed over the semiconductor substrate, where each of the plurality of metallization layers is separated from adjacent metallization layers by an interlayer dielectric. The memory device also ...