US Patent Issued to Analog Devices International UnLtd. on May 13 for "Devices and methods for reducing stress on circuit components" (British, Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,631, issued on May 13, was assigned to Analog Devices International UnLtd. Co. (Limerick, Ireland).

"Devices and methods for reducing stress on circuit components" was invented by Padraig Fitzgerald (Mallow, Ireland), George Redfield Spalding Jr. (Edinburgh, Great Britain), Jonathan Ephraim David Hurwitz (Edinburgh, Great Britain) and Michael J. Flynn (Woodhaven, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to integrated circuits which include various structural elements. In particular, a combination of trenches and cavities are used to mechanically isolate the integrated circuit from the surrounding substrat...