Intellectual Property Law

US Patent 7492046 - CNT electric fuses

This patent from IBM teaches providing nanotubes of different length in a reprogrammable fuse method. Claim 1 reads:

12. A structure operating method, comprising:

providing a structure which includes

(a) an electrically conductive layer,

(b) N electrically conductive regions hanging over without touching the electrically conductive layer, wherein N is a positive integer and N is greater than 1, wherein the N electrically conductive regions are electrically connected together; and causing a first electrically conductive region of the N electrically conductive regions to touch the electrically conductive layer without causing the remaining N?1 electrically conductive regions to touch the electrically conductive layer.

Full post as published by TinytechIP on February 19, 2009 (boomark / email).