Patents by Inventor Brian Cronquist

Brian Cronquist has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20220328411
    Abstract: A semiconductor device including: a silicon layer including a single crystal silicon layer and a plurality of first transistors; a first metal layer disposed over the first silicon layer; a second metal layer disposed over the first metal layer; a third metal layer disposed over the second metal layer; a second level including a plurality of second transistors, the second level disposed over the third metal layer; a fourth metal layer disposed over the second level; a fifth metal layer disposed over the fourth metal layer; and a via disposed through the second level and has a diameter of less than 450 nm, where the second level thickness is less than four microns, where the fifth metal layer includes a global power distribution grid, and where a typical thickness of the fifth metal layer is greater than a typical thickness of the second metal layer by at least 50%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2022
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Applicant: Monolithic 3D Inc.
    Inventors: Zvi Or-Bach, Brian Cronquist
  • Patent number: 11450646
    Abstract: A semiconductor device including: a silicon layer including a single crystal silicon and a plurality of first transistors; a first metal layer disposed over the silicon layer; a second metal layer disposed over the first metal layer; a third metal layer disposed over the second metal layer, a second level including a plurality of second transistors, the first level disposed over the third metal layer; a fourth metal layer disposed over the second level; a fifth metal layer disposed over the fourth metal layer, the fourth metal layer is aligned to the first metal layer with a less than 40 nm alignment error; and a via disposed through the second level, the second level thickness is less than two microns, the fifth metal layer includes a global power distribution grid, where a fifth metal layer typical thickness is greater than a second metal layer typical thickness by at least 50%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: MONOLITHIC 3D INC.
    Inventors: Zvi Or-Bach, Brian Cronquist
  • Patent number: 11447119
    Abstract: An electrical passenger car, the electrical passenger car comprising: at least two electrically driven motors; motor control electronics; sensors; and wheels, wherein said wheels comprise a first front wheel and a first back wheel, wherein said first back wheel has a radius at least 9% greater than a radius of said first front wheel, and wherein said motor control electronics control said at least two electrically driven motors to provide a greater torque to said front wheel than to said back wheel, or wherein said motor control electronics control said at least two electrically driven motors to provide a greater torque to said back wheel than to said front wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Or-Ment LLC
    Inventors: Zvi Or-Bach, Brian Cronquist
  • Patent number: 11443971
    Abstract: A 3D semiconductor device, the device including: a first level including a plurality of first single crystal transistors and a first metal layer, where the first transistors include forming memory control circuits; a second level including a plurality of second transistors; a third level including a plurality of third transistors, where the second level is above the first level, and where the third level is above the second level; a second metal layer above the third level; and a third metal layer above the second metal layer, where the second transistors are aligned to the first transistors with less than 140 nm alignment error, where the second level includes a plurality of first memory cells, where the third level includes a plurality of second memory cells, and where the memory control circuits are designed to adjust a memory write voltage according to the device specific process parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: MONOLITHIC 3D INC.
    Inventors: Zvi Or-Bach, Brian Cronquist, Deepak C. Sekar
  • Publication number: 20220285322
    Abstract: A semiconductor device including: a silicon layer including a single crystal silicon and a plurality of first transistors; a first metal layer disposed over the silicon layer; a second metal layer disposed over the first metal layer; a third metal layer disposed over the second metal layer, a second level including a plurality of second transistors, the first level disposed over the third metal layer; a fourth metal layer disposed over the second level; a fifth metal layer disposed over the fourth metal layer, the fourth metal layer is aligned to the first metal layer with a less than 40 nm alignment error; and a via disposed through the second level, the second level thickness is less than two microns, the fifth metal layer includes a global power distribution grid, where a fifth metal layer typical thickness is greater than a second metal layer typical thickness by at least 50%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2022
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Applicant: Monolithic 3D Inc.
    Inventors: Zvi Or-Bach, Brian Cronquist
  • Patent number: 11437368
    Abstract: A multi-level semiconductor device, the device including: a first level including integrated circuits; a second level including a structure designed to conduct electromagnetic waves, where the second level is disposed above the first level, where the first level includes crystalline silicon; and an oxide layer disposed between the first level and the second level, where the second level is bonded to the oxide layer, and where the bonded includes oxide to oxide bonds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: MONOLITHIC 3D INC.
    Inventors: Zvi Or-Bach, Deepak C. Sekar, Brian Cronquist
  • Patent number: 11430668
    Abstract: A 3D semiconductor device a first level, where the first level includes a first layer which includes first transistors, where the first level includes a second layer, the second layer including first interconnections; a second level overlaying the first level, where the second level includes a third layer which includes second transistors, and where the second level includes a fourth layer, the fourth layer including second interconnections and a plurality of connection paths, where the plurality of connection paths provides connections from a plurality of the first transistors to a plurality of the second transistors, where the second level is bonded to the first level, where the bonded includes oxide to oxide bond regions, where the bonded includes metal to metal bond regions, where the second level includes at least one first ElectroStatic Discharge (ESD) circuit, and where the first level includes at least one second ESD circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: MONOLITHIC 3D INC.
    Inventors: Zvi Or-Bach, Brian Cronquist, Deepak Sekar
  • Patent number: 11430667
    Abstract: A 3D semiconductor device, the device including: a first level, where the first level includes a first layer, the first layer including first transistors, and where the first level includes a second layer, the second layer including first interconnections; a second level overlaying the first level, where the second level includes a third layer, the third layer including second transistors, and where the second level includes a fourth layer, the fourth layer including second interconnections; and a plurality of connection paths, where the plurality of connection paths provides connections from a plurality of the first transistors to a plurality of the second transistors, where the second level is bonded to the first level, where the bonded includes oxide to oxide bond regions, where the bonded includes metal to metal bond regions, and where the device includes a plurality of capacitors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Monolithic 3D Inc.
    Inventors: Zvi Or-Bach, Brian Cronquist, Deepak Sekar
  • Patent number: 11424222
    Abstract: A semiconductor device, the device including: a first silicon layer including a first single crystal silicon; a first metal layer disposed over the first silicon layer; a second metal layer disposed over the first metal layer; a first level including a plurality of transistors, the first level disposed over the second metal layer, where the plurality of transistors include a second single crystal silicon; a third metal layer disposed over the first level; a fourth metal layer disposed over the third metal layer, where the fourth metal layer is aligned to the first metal layer with a less than 40 nm alignment error; and a via disposed through the first level, where the first level thickness is less than two microns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: MONOLITHIC 3D INC.
    Inventors: Zvi Or-Bach, Brian Cronquist
  • Publication number: 20220262666
    Abstract: A 3D semiconductor device including: a first single crystal layer including a plurality of first transistors and a first metal layer, where a second metal layer is disposed atop the first metal layer; a plurality of logic gates including the first metal layer and first transistors; a plurality of second transistors disposed atop the second metal layer; a plurality of third transistors disposed atop the second transistors; a top metal layer disposed atop the third transistors; and a memory array including word-lines, where the memory array includes at least four memory mini arrays, where each of the mini arrays includes at least two rows by two columns of memory cells, where each memory cell includes one of the second transistors or one of the third transistors, and where one of the second transistors is self-aligned to one of the third transistors, being processed following a same lithography step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2022
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Applicant: Monolithic 3D Inc.
    Inventors: Zvi Or-Bach, Brian Cronquist, Deepak C. Sekar
  • Patent number: 11410912
    Abstract: A 3D semiconductor device, the device including: a first level including a plurality of first metal layers; a second level, where the second level overlays the first level, where the second level includes at least one single crystal silicon layer, where the second level includes a plurality of transistors, where each of the plurality of transistors includes a single crystal channel, where the second level includes a plurality of second metal layers, where the plurality of second metal layers include interconnections between the plurality of transistors, and where the second level is overlaid by a first isolation layer; and a connective path between the plurality of transistors and the plurality of first metal layers, where the connective path includes a via disposed through at least the single crystal silicon layer, and where the via has a diameter of less than 400 nm and greater than 5 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: Monolithic 3D Inc.
    Inventors: Zvi Or-Bach, Deepak C. Sekar, Brian Cronquist
  • Patent number: 11404466
    Abstract: An integrated device, the device including: a first level including a first mono-crystal layer, the first mono-crystal layer including a plurality of single crystal transistors; an overlaying oxide on top of the first level; a second level including a second mono-crystal layer, the second level overlaying the oxide, where the second mono-crystal layer includes a plurality of first image sensors; and a third level overlaying the second level, where the third level includes a plurality of second image sensors, where the second level is bonded to the first level, where the bonded includes an oxide to oxide bond; and an isolation layer disposed between the second mono-crystal layer and the third level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: MONOLITHIC 3D INC.
    Inventors: Zvi Or-Bach, Deepak C. Sekar, Brian Cronquist
  • Publication number: 20220238514
    Abstract: A multi-level semiconductor device, the device including: a first level including integrated circuits; a second level including a structure designed to conduct electromagnetic waves, where the second level is disposed above the first level, where the first level includes crystalline silicon; and an oxide layer disposed between the first level and the second level, where the second level is bonded to the oxide layer, and where the bonded includes oxide to oxide bonds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2022
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Applicant: Monolithic 3D Inc.
    Inventors: Zvi Or-Bach, Deepak C. Sekar, Brian Cronquist
  • Publication number: 20220238367
    Abstract: A 3D semiconductor device including: a first level including a first single-crystal layer, a plurality of first transistors, a first metal layer (includes interconnection of first transistors), and a second metal layer, where first transistors' interconnection includes forming logic gates; a plurality of second transistors disposed atop, at least in part, of logic gates; a plurality of third transistors disposed atop, at least in part, of the second transistors; a third metal layer disposed above, at least in part, the third transistors; a global grid to distribute power and overlaying, at least in part, the third metal layer; a local grid to distribute power to the logic gates, the local grid is disposed below, at least in part, the second transistors, where the second transistors are aligned to the first transistors with less than 40 nm misalignment, where at least one of the second transistors includes a metal gate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2022
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Applicant: Monolithic 3D Inc.
    Inventors: Zvi Or-Bach, Brian Cronquist, Deepak C. Sekar
  • Patent number: 11398569
    Abstract: A 3D semiconductor device, the device including: a first level, where the first level includes a first layer, the first layer including first transistors, and where the first level includes a second layer, the second layer including first interconnections; a second level overlaying the first level, where the second level includes a third layer, the third layer including second transistors, and where the second level includes a fourth layer, the fourth layer including second interconnections; a plurality of connection paths, where the plurality of connection paths provide first connections from a plurality of the first transistors to a plurality of the second transistors, where the second level is bonded to the first level, where the bonded includes oxide to oxide bond regions, where the bonded includes metal to metal bond regions, where the third layer includes crystalline silicon, and where the second level includes a plurality of capacitors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: MONOLITHIC 3D INC.
    Inventors: Zvi Or-Bach, Brian Cronquist
  • Publication number: 20220231052
    Abstract: A semiconductor device, the device including: a first level overlaid by a first memory control level; a first memory level disposed on top of said first control level, where said first memory level includes a first thinned single crystal substrate; a second memory level, said second memory level disposed on top of said first memory level, where said second memory level includes a second thinned single crystal substrate, where said memory control level is bonded to said first memory level, and where said bonded includes oxide to oxide and conductor to conductor bonding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2022
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Applicant: Monolithic 3D Inc.
    Inventors: Zvi Or-Bach, Jin-Woo Han, Brian Cronquist
  • Publication number: 20220230906
    Abstract: A 3D semiconductor device including: a first level including a single crystal layer and plurality of first transistors; a first metal layer including interconnects between first transistors, where the interconnects between the first transistors includes forming logic gates; a second metal layer atop at least a portion of the first metal layer, second transistors which are vertically oriented, are also atop a portion of the second metal layer; where at least eight of the first transistors are connected in series forming at least a portion of a NAND logic structure, where at least one of the second transistors is at least partially directly atop of the NAND logic structure; and a third metal layer atop at least a portion of the second transistors, where the second metal layer is aligned to the first metal layer with a less than 150 nm misalignment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2022
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Applicant: Monolithic 3D Inc.
    Inventors: Zvi Or-Bach, Brian Cronquist, Deepak C. Sekar
  • Publication number: 20220223459
    Abstract: A method for producing a 3D semiconductor device including: providing a first level including a first single crystal layer; forming first alignment marks and control circuits in and/or on the first level, where the control circuits include first single crystal transistors and at least two interconnection metal layers; forming at least one second level disposed on top of the control circuits; performing a first etch step including etching first holes within the second level; and performing additional processing steps (including Atomic Layer Deposition) to form a plurality of memory cells within the second level, where each memory cell includes at least one second transistor, where making the second level includes forming lithography holes atop of the first alignment marks which enables performing lithography steps aligned to the first alignment marks, including at least the first etch step above.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Applicant: Monolithic 3D Inc.
    Inventors: Zvi Or-Bach, Brian Cronquist, Deepak C. Sekar
  • Publication number: 20220223458
    Abstract: A 3D semiconductor device including: a first single-crystal layer including a plurality of first transistors; at least one first metal layer disposed atop the plurality of first transistors; a second metal layer disposed atop the at least one first metal layer; a plurality of second transistors disposed atop the second metal layer; a plurality of third transistors disposed atop the plurality of second transistors; a plurality of fourth transistors disposed atop the plurality of third transistors; a third metal layer disposed atop the plurality of fourth transistors; a fourth metal layer disposed atop the third metal layer; a plurality of connecting metal paths from the fourth metal layer or the third metal layer to the second metal layer, where at least one of the plurality of third transistors is aligned to at least one of the plurality of first transistors with less than 40 nm alignment error.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2022
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Applicant: Monolithic 3D Inc.
    Inventors: Zvi Or-Bach, Brian Cronquist, Deepak C. Sekar
  • Publication number: 20220216070
    Abstract: A 3D semiconductor device a first level, where the first level includes a first layer which includes first transistors, where the first level includes a second layer, the second layer including first interconnections; a second level overlaying the first level, where the second level includes a third layer which includes second transistors, and where the second level includes a fourth layer, the fourth layer including second interconnections and a plurality of connection paths, where the plurality of connection paths provides connections from a plurality of the first transistors to a plurality of the second transistors, where the second level is bonded to the first level, where the bonded includes oxide to oxide bond regions, where the bonded includes metal to metal bond regions, where the second level includes at least one first ElectroStatic Discharge (ESD) circuit, and where the first level includes at least one second ESD circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Applicant: Monolithic 3D Inc.
    Inventors: Zvi Or-Bach, Brian Cronquist, Deepak Sekar