ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,186, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Redistribution structure for semiconductor device and method of forming same" was invented by Po-Han Wang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Yu-Hsiang Hu (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Hung-Jui Kuo (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device having a redistribution structure and a method of forming the same are provided. A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor structure, a redistribution structure over and electrically coupled the semiconductor structure, and a connector over and electrically coupled to the redistribution s...