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International Business Machines Assigned Patent(Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) By Targeted News Service ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 11 -- International Business Machines, Armonk, New York, and Samsung Electronics, South Korea, have been assigned a patent (8,796,134) developed by Chang-Hwa Kim, Hwaseong-si, South Korea, and Ryan L. Burns, Wappingers Falls, New York, for the "methods of forming integrated circuit devices using modified rectangular mask patterns to increase reliability of contacts to electrically conductive lines." The patent application was filed on Feb. 15, 2012 (13/397,038). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=8,796,134.PN.&OS=PN/8,796,134&RS=PN/8,796,134 Written by Deviprasad Jena; edited by Jaya Anand. DJ0811JA0811-1045811 (c) 2014 Targeted News Service |