Patent 5977640 Issued on November 2, 1999. Estimated Expiration Date: June 26, 2018. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.
The advantages of the invention are realized by a chip-on-chip module having at least two fully functional chips, electrically connected together, and a chip-on-chip component connection/interconnection for electrically connecting the fully functional chips to external circuitry.
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