ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,484,149, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to GLOBAL UNICHIP Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Electric device, its circuit board and method of manufacturing the electric device" was invented by Chih-Chieh Liao (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Yu-Min Sun (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Chih-Feng Cheng (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric device includes a semiconductor assembly, a circuit board, first conductive pads and second conductive pads. The circuit board has a chip-mounted area with a rectangular shape. The first conductive pads are arranged in a center zone or all corner...