US Patent Issued to INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES on Sept. 2 for "Semiconductor chip having a crack stop structure" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,406,940, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AG (Neubiberg, Germany).

"Semiconductor chip having a crack stop structure" was invented by Sergey Ananiev (Ottobrunn, Germany), Andreas Bauer (Regensburg, Germany), Michael Goroll (Poing, Germany), Maria Heidenblut (Schwarzenfeld, Germany), Stefan Kaiser (Aschheim, Germany), Gunther Mackh (Neumarkt, Germany), Kabula Mutamba (Pentling, Germany), Reinhard Pufall (Munich) and Georg Reuther (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor chip having a crack stop structure is disclosed. The crack stop structure includes one or more recesses formed in the semiconductor c...