US Patent Issued to UNITED MICROELECTRONICS on June 17 for "Metal interconnect structure having serpent metal line" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,436, issued on June 17, was assigned to UNITED MICROELECTRONICS CORP. (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan).

"Metal interconnect structure having serpent metal line" was invented by Shih-Che Huang (Chiayi, Taiwan), Ching-Chih Chang (Tainan, Taiwan), Yuan-Fu Ko (Tainan, Taiwan) and Chih-Sheng Chang (Tainan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a first metal interconnection disposed on a substrate, a second metal interconnection disposed on the first metal interconnection, a first contact via disposed between the first metal interconnection and the second metal interconnection, a first serpent metal line connecting to a f...