Patents by Inventor John Bracchitta

John Bracchitta 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: 20070204447
    Abstract: A decoupling capacitor is provided for a semiconductor device and may include a first low dielectric insulator layer and a low resistance conductor formed into at least two interdigitized patterns on the surface of the first low dielectric insulator in a single interconnect plane. A high dielectric constant material may be provided between the two patterns. A circuit for testing a plurality of these capacitors is also provided which includes a charge monitoring circuit, a coupling circuit and a control circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2007
    Publication date: September 6, 2007
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Kerry Bernstein, John Bracchitta, William Cote, Tak Ning, Wilbur Pricer
  • Publication number: 20060235719
    Abstract: An intellectual property management facility for proactively creating, developing and managing an intellectual property portfolio includes: determining available resource capacity for an intellectual property activity in a tracking system; assigning technical attributes to the activity in the tracking system; apportioning resource capacity for the activity by technical attribute based on the value assigned to each of the technical attributes and based on available resource capacity; obtaining actual resource usage by technical attribute from the tracking system; and managing resource allocation for the intellectual property activity by determining the difference between the actual resource usage and the resource allocation by technical attribute.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2006
    Publication date: October 19, 2006
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: John Bracchitta, Patricia Marmillion, Bernadette Pierson, Henry Rickers, Howard Walter
  • Publication number: 20050139959
    Abstract: A decoupling capacitor is provided for a semiconductor device and may include a first low dielectric insulator layer and a low resistance conductor formed into at least two interdigitized patterns on the surface of the first low dielectric insulator in a single interconnect plane. A high dielectric constant material may be provided between the two patterns. A circuit for testing a plurality of these capacitors is also provided which includes a charge monitoring circuit, a coupling circuit and a control circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2005
    Publication date: June 30, 2005
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Kerry Bernstein, John Bracchitta, William Cote, Tak Ning, Wilbur Pricer