ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,733,187, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to UNITED MICROELECTRONICS CORP. (Hsin-Chu City, Taiwan).
"Metal-insulator-metal capacitor structure" was invented by Tai-Cheng Hou (Tainan City, Taiwan), Da-Jun Lin (Kaohsiung City, Taiwan), Bin-Siang Tsai (Changhua County, Taiwan), Fu-Yu Tsai (Tainan City, Taiwan), Ya-Yin Hsiao (Taipei City, Taiwan), Po-Ching Su (Tainan City, Taiwan), Yi-Fan Li (Tainan City, Taiwan), Kuan-Jhih Hou (Chiayi County, Taiwan), Yu-Fu Wang (Taoyuan City, Taiwan), Ti-Bin Chen (Tainan City, Taiwan), Chih-Chiang Wu (Tainan City, Taiwan) and Yao-Jhan Wang (Tainan City, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A MIM capacitor ...