ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,484,154, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to AT&S Austria Technologie & Systemtechnik AG (Leoben, Austria).
"Inlay with exposed porous layer, component carrier and manufacturing methods" was invented by Stefanie Paller (Fernitz-Mellach, Austria) and Gernot Grober (Weisskirchen, Austria).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inlay for a component carrier includes a gas-permeable porous layer structure, an upper layer structure, arranged on the gas-permeable porous layer structure, the upper layer structure defining a cavity such that a portion of the gas-permeable porous layer structure is exposed and an upper metal layer structure arranged on ...