ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,444, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).
"Matching unit capacitor with multiple metal layers" was invented by Lei Sun (San Diego), Aram Akhavan (San Diego), Behnam Sedighi (La Jolla, Calif.), Tszwing Choi (San Diego) and Henry Lau (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A capacitor device comprises a semiconductor substrate with multiple metal layers above the substrate. a first metal layer has a first plurality of bottom terminals elongated in a first direction, and a first plurality of top terminals, electrically coupled to each other, elongated in the first direction and interleaved with the first plurali...