US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on Feb. 17 for "Dielectric crack suppression fabrication and system" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,557,654, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Dielectric crack suppression fabrication and system" was invented by 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 integrated circuit with a first conductive region, a second conductive region, a plurality of dielectric layers of a first material type between the first conductive region and the second conductive region, and at least one dielectric layer of a second material type, between a first dielectric layer in the plurality of dielectric layers of a first material type and...