ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,579, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Interposers with millimeter-wave transitions" was invented by Abdellatif Zanati (Hamburg, Germany), Jonas Ove Harm (Hamburg, Germany) and Adrianus Buijsman (Nijmegen, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A compact integrated circuit (IC) that outputs millimeter-wave energy can be assembled into a highly compact package that can utilize ultrasmall contacts and/or contacts arrange with nonstandard pitch. The millimeter-wave IC can be assembled onto an interposer that includes an integrated transition configured to be coupled to a millimeter-wave waveguide...