ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,199, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"On-chip shielded device" was invented by Philipp Franz Freidl (Weurt, Netherlands), Mustafa Acar (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Antonius Hendrikus Jozef Kamphuis (Nijmegen, Netherlands), Erik Daniel Bjork (Sollentuna, Sweden), Konstantinos Giannakidis (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Jan Willem Bergman (Veghel, Netherlands), Rajesh Mandamparambil (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Paul Mattheijssen (Boxtel, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One example discloses an on-chip shielded device, including: a planar structure including a substrate and a passivation layer; an...