ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,195, issued on March 18, was assigned to iCometrue Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

"Logic drive based on standardized commodity programmable logic semiconductor IC chips" was invented by Jin-Yuan Lee (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Mou-Shiung Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A chip package includes an interposer comprising a silicon substrate, multiple metal vias passing through the silicon substrate, a first interconnection metal layer over the silicon substrate, a second interconnection metal layer over the silicon substrate, and an insulating dielectric layer over the silicon substrate and between the first and second...