ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,784, issued on July 1, was assigned to SK Hynix NAND Product Solutions Corp. (Rancho Cordova, Calif.).

"Interposer with step feature" was invented by Florence Pon (Folsom, Calif.) and Yi Xu (Folsom, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure may generally relate to systems, apparatus, and/or processes directed to an interposer with step features used to electrically couple stacked dies. In embodiments, the step features may appear as a ziggurat shape to one or more sides of the interposer, which may be referred to as a ziggurat interposer. The interposer may have electrical routing disposed within to e...