US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on March 24 for "IC including capacitor having segmented bottom plate" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,225, issued on March 24, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"IC including capacitor having segmented bottom plate" was invented by Jeffrey West (Dallas), Mrinal Das (Allen, Texas), Byron Williams (Plano, Texas), Thomas Bonifield (Dallas) and Maxim Franke (Dallas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An IC includes a substrate including circuitry configured to provide a receiver or a transmitter circuit. A metal stack is over the semiconductor surface including a top metal layer and a plurality of lower metal layers. An isolation capacitor includes the top metal layer as a top plate that is electrically connected to a first no...