US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on June 17 for "Dielectric caps for power and signal line routing" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,442, issued on June 17, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Dielectric caps for power and signal line routing" was invented by Nicholas Anthony Lanzillo (Wynantskill, N.Y.), Ruilong Xie (Niskayuna, N.Y.), Lawrence A. Clevenger (Saratoga Springs, N.Y.), Hosadurga Shobha (Niskayuna, N.Y.) and Huai Huang (Clifton Park, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor interconnect structure comprises a substrate, a plurality of metal lines disposed relative to the substrate and a plurality of first and second caps disposed on the metal lines wherein the first caps comprise a first dielectric material...