Patents by Inventor Thomas Kocis

Thomas Kocis 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).

  • Metal-insulator-metal capacitor
    Patent number: 6927440
    Abstract: An interconnection wiring system incorporating two levels of interconnection wiring separated by a first dielectric, a capacitor formed by a second dielectric, a bottom electrode of the lower interconnection wiring or a via and a top electrode of the upper interconnection wiring or a separate metal layer. The invention overcomes the problem of leakage current and of substrate stray capacitance by positioning the capacitor between two levels of interconnection wiring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2005
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Nancy Anne Greco, David Louis Harame, Gary Robert Hueckel, Joseph Thomas Kocis, Dominique Nguyen Ngoc, Kenneth Jay Stein
  • Metal-insulator-metal capacitor
    Patent number: 6635527
    Abstract: An interconnection wiring system incorporating two levels of interconnection wiring separated by a first dielectric, a capacitor formed by a second dielectric, a bottom electrode of the lower interconnection wiring or a via and a top electrode of the upper interconnection wiring or a separate metal layer. The invention overcomes the problem of leakage current and of substrate stray capacitance by positioning the capacitor between two levels of interconnection wiring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2003
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Nancy Anne Greco, David Louis Harame, Gary Robert Hueckel, Joseph Thomas Kocis, Dominique Nguyen Ngoc, Kenneth Jay Stein
  • Metal-insulator-metal capacitor
    Patent number: 5926359
    Abstract: An interconnection wiring system incorporating two levels of interconnection wiring separated by a first dielectric, a capacitor formed by a second dielectric, a bottom electrode of the lower interconnection wiring or a via and a top electrode of the upper interconnection wiring or a separate metal layer. The invention overcomes the problem of leakage current and of substrate stray capacitance by positioning the capacitor between two levels of interconnection wiring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 1996
    Date of Patent: July 20, 1999
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Nancy Anne Greco, David Louis Harame, Gary Robert Hueckel, Joseph Thomas Kocis, Dominique Nguyen Ngoc, Kenneth Jay Stein
  • Circuit for providing automatic SCSI bus termination
    Patent number: 5467453
    Abstract: Disclosed are a circuit and method for providing automatic termination for a small computer systems interface ("SCSI") bus. The circuit resides within a bus controller comprising (1) a control circuit for controlling transmission of data on a bus and for providing an interface between the bus and a computer system for communication of the data therebetween and (2) a first bus port and a second bus port, each of the first and second bus ports permitting a device to be coupled thereto for communication with the control circuit via the bus, the bus controller being at an end of the bus when a single one of the first and second bus ports is coupled to a device and being in a middle of the bus when both the first and second bus ports are coupled to devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 1993
    Date of Patent: November 14, 1995
    Assignee: Dell USA, L.P.
    Inventor: Thomas Kocis