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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:
Aug. 20, 2002
Filed:
Jul. 31, 2000
Applicant:
Inventors:
Martin P. Goetz, Discovery Bay, CA (US);
Sammy K. Brown, Los Gatos, CA (US);
George E. Avery, Saratoga, CA (US);
Andrew K. Wiggin, San Carlos, CA (US);
Tom L. Todd, San Jose, CA (US);
Sam Beal, Mountain View, CA (US);
Assignee:
Alpine Microsystems, Inc., Campbell, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 2/144 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01L 2/144 ;
Abstract
A system and method for efficiently interconnecting a plurality of ICs, thereby improving the electrical performance of the overall system while reducing contact degradation due to stress that results from differences in the coefficients of thermal expansion of the various components during thermal cycling