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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:
Jun. 04, 2013
Filed:
May. 28, 2010
Applicants:
Benjamin A. Fox, Rochester, MN (US);
Nathaniel J. Gibbs, Rochester, MN (US);
Andrew B. Maki, Rock, MN (US);
Trevor J. Timpane, Rochester, MN (US);
Inventors:
Benjamin A. Fox, Rochester, MN (US);
Nathaniel J. Gibbs, Rochester, MN (US);
Andrew B. Maki, Rock, MN (US);
Trevor J. Timpane, Rochester, MN (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 31/28 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A semiconductor wafer comprises a first chip and a second chip, each chip comprising a core, link layer and physical layer. A kerf area physically connects the two chips on the wafer, and a kerf area interconnect selectively couples the link layers of the two chips while the two physical layers are disabled.