ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,991, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).
"Integrated isolation capacitor with enhanced bottom plate" was invented by Byron Lovell Williams (Plano, Texas), Elizabeth Costner Stewart (Dallas), Jeffrey Alan West (Dallas) and Thomas Dyer Bonifield (Dallas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device has a conductive shield between first and second regions in a multilevel metallization structure, as well as a capacitor with first and second terminals in the first region, the first terminal laterally overlaps the second terminal by an overlap distance of 1.0 micro metre to 6.0 micro metre, the conductiv...