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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 13, 2007
Filed:
Feb. 07, 2003
Brian V. Mech, Stevenson Ranch, CA (US);
Robert J. Greenberg, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Gregory J. Delmain, Maple Grove, MN (US);
Brian V. Mech, Stevenson Ranch, CA (US);
Robert J. Greenberg, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Gregory J. DelMain, Maple Grove, MN (US);
Second Sight Medical Products, Inc., Sylmar, CA (US);
Abstract
The invention is directed to a hermetically packaged and implantable integrated circuit for electronics that is made by producing streets in silicon-on-insulator chips that are subsequently coated with a selected electrically insulating thin film prior to completing the dicing process to yield an individual chip. A thin-layered circuit may transmit light, allowing a photodetector to respond to transmitted light to stimulate a retina, for example. Discrete electronic components may be placed in the three-dimensional street area of the integrated circuit package, yielding a completely integrated hermetic package that is implantable in living tissue.