ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,245,377, issued on March 4.

"Component carrier with embedded semiconductor component and embedded highly-conductive block which are mutually coupled" was invented by Johannes Stahr (St. Lorenzen im Murztal, Austria), Andreas Zluc (Leoben, Austria), Mike Morianz (Graz, Austria) and Heinz Moitzi (Zeltweg, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A component carrier includes a stack having at least one horizontal electrically conductive layer structure, at least one electrically insulating layer structure, a semiconductor component embedded in the stack, and at least one vertical via being laterally offset from the semiconductor component. Th...