US Patent Issued to Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives on May 27 for "Process for protecting an upper stage of electronic components of an integrated circuit against antenna effects" (French Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,603, issued on May 27, was assigned to Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives (Paris).

"Process for protecting an upper stage of electronic components of an integrated circuit against antenna effects" was invented by Olivier Billoint (Grenoble, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for protecting an upper stage of an electronic components against antenna effects includes providing a first structure having a first substrate with a first surface, a first stage of electronic components formed in a second surface of the first substrate, and a first stack having a last metallization level electrically con...