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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 19, 2000
Filed:
Apr. 24, 2000
Applicant:
Inventor:
Henry L Pfizenmayer, Phoenix, AZ (US);
Assignee:
Motorola, Inc., Schaumburg, IL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
257529 ; 257 48 ; 257209 ;
Abstract
A semiconductor device (10) is formed to have multiple external connection pads (17, 18) for an active element (12). The multiple external connection pads (17, 18) are electrically connected together with a electrical link (19). After testing, the electrical link (19) is removed to disconnect the multiple external connection pads (17, 18) from each other.