US Patent Issued to Microchip Technology on May 20 for "Metal-insulator-metal (MIM) capacitor module with outer electrode extension" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,041, issued on May 20, was assigned to Microchip Technology Inc. (Chandler, Ariz.).

"Metal-insulator-metal (MIM) capacitor module with outer electrode extension" was invented by Yaojian Leng (Vancouver, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A metal-insulator-metal (MIM) capacitor module includes an outer electrode, an insulator, an inner electrode, an outer electrode extension structure, an inner electrode contact element, and an outer electrode contact element. The outer electrode includes a plurality of vertically-extending outer electrode sidewalls. The insulator is formed in an opening defined by the vertically-extending outer ele...