ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,441, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Shanghai Xizhi Technology Co. Ltd. (Shanghai).

"Semiconductor device" was invented by Jianhua Wu (Shanghai), Cheng-Kuan Lu (Shanghai), Huaiyu Meng (Shanghai) and Yichen Shen (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a field of photonic integrated circuits, which provides a semiconductor device. In some embodiments, the semiconductor device includes: a PIC chip including a conductive structure in a via; a first electronic integrated circuit chip (i.e., first EIC chip) arranged on a first surface of the PIC chip; a second electronic integrated circuit chip (i.e., s...