ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,138, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to AT&SAustria Technologie &Systemtechnik AG (Leoben, Austria).

"Component carrier with a photoimageable dielectric layer and a structured conductive layer being used as a mask for selectively exposing the photoimageable dielectric layer with electromagnetic radiation" was invented by Marco Gavagnin (Leoben, Austria), Erich Preiner (St. Michael in Obersteiermark, Austria) and Hyung Park (Trofaiach, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for manufacturing a component carrier is disclosed. The method includes the steps of providing a layer stack having at least one component carrier material,...