US Patent Issued to STMicroelectronics, STMicroelectronics on Jan. 28 for "Method of manufacturing semiconductor devices and corresponding semiconductor device" (Italian, Philippine Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,211,772, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to STMicroelectronics S.r.l. (Agrate Brianza, Italy) and STMicroelectronics Inc. (Calamba, Philippines).

"Method of manufacturing semiconductor devices and corresponding semiconductor device" was invented by Fulvio Vittorio Fontana (Monza, Italy), Davide Maria Benelli (Crema, Italy) and Jefferson Sismundo Talledo (Laguna, Philippines).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device, such as a Quad-Flat No-lead (QFN) package, includes a semiconductor chip arranged on a die pad of a leadframe. The leadframe has an array of electrically-conductive leads around the die pad. The leads in the array...