ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,504, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to AT&S Austria Technologie & Systemtechnik AG (Leoben, Austria).

"Component embedded in component carrier and having an exposed side wall" was invented by Bettina Schuster (Leoben, Austria), Jonathan Silvano de Sousa (Vienna), Andreas Zluc (Leoben, Austria), Markus Leitgeb (Trofaiach, Austria) and Hannes Stahr (St. Lorenzen im Muerztal, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for manufacturing a component carrier includes i) providing a metal layer, in particular a copper layer; ii) forming a film on the metal layer; iii) patterning the film in order to expose a part of the metal layer;...