ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,200, issued on June 17, was assigned to Sumitomo Electric Device Innovations Inc. (Yokohama, Japan).
"Metal-insulator-metal (MIM) capacitor with additional electrode embedded in insulating film" was invented by Takeshi Igarashi (Yokohama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A capacitor includes an MIM capacitor that includes a lower electrode, a dielectric film disposed on the lower electrode, and an upper electrode disposed on the dielectric film, an insulating film that is disposed on the upper electrode so as to cover the MIM capacitor, and an additional electrode that is disposed in the insulating film and above an outer periphe...