US Patent Issued to Skyworks Solutions on Sept. 2 for "Moisture barrier for metal insulator metal capacitors and integrated circuit having the same" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,406,944, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Skyworks Solutions Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Moisture barrier for metal insulator metal capacitors and integrated circuit having the same" was invented by Jiro Yota (Westlake Village, Calif.) and Shiban Kishan Tiku (Camarillo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor die includes a substrate layer, one or more metal layers disposed over the substrate layer, and one or more polyimide layers disposed over the substrate. Each polyimide layer can have a trench that separates a first portion of the polyimide layer that is adjacent a metal layer from a second portion of the polyimide layer...