ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,727, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).
"Packages with electrical fuses" was invented by Mahmud Halim Chowdhury (Richardson, Texas), Amin Sijelmassi (Dallas), Murali Kittappa (Plano, Texas), Anindya Poddar (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Honglin Guo (Dallas), Joe Adam Garcia (Royse City, Texas) and John Paul Tellkamp (Rockwall, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In examples, a package comprises a semiconductor die having a device side and a bond pad on the device side, a conductive terminal exposed to an exterior of the package, and an electrical fuse. The electrical fuse comprises a conductive ball coupled to...