ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,195, issued on April 15, was assigned to Avalanche Technology Inc. (Fremont, Calif.).

"Shielding of packaged magnetic random access memory" was invented by Zihui Wang (Mountain View, Calif.) and Yiming Huai (Pleasanton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A packaged semiconductor device includes one or more semiconductor dies with at least one MRAM die; a package substrate having first and second planar surfaces that are substantially larger than planar surfaces of the semiconductor dies, the first planar surface of the package substrate being disposed adjacent to the semiconductor dies and including a plurality of package bond pads...