US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on Aug. 18 for "Sintered metal flip chip joints" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,713,938, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Sintered metal flip chip joints" was invented by Kurt Peter Wachtler (Richardson, Texas), Seunghyun Chae (Allen, Texas) and Benjamin Stassen Cook (Rockwall, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit die may be fabricating to have a plurality of contacts. A metal post may be formed on each of the plurality of contacts. A plurality of bumps may be formed on a plurality of contact regions of a leadframe or on the posts, in which the plurality of bumps are formed with a material that includes metal nanoparticles. The IC die may be attached to the l...