US Patent Issued to II-VI DELAWARE on Feb. 10 for "Protecting circuitry under laser programmable fuses" (Pennsylvania Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,722, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to II-VI DELAWARE INC. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Protecting circuitry under laser programmable fuses" was invented by Scott W. McLellan (Kempton, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit has fuses that are selectively configurable by laser light having a wavelength incident on the fuses. A substrate of the integrated circuit has circuitry thereon. Fuses are disposed vertically above at least a portion of the circuitry. A dielectric reflector is disposed vertically above and laterally covers at least a portion of the circuitry. The dielectric reflector has a plurality of alternating diel...