ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,376, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Semiconductor structure and method of forming" was invented by Hsien-Wei Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Ching-Jung Yang (Taoyuan County, Taiwan) and Ming-Fa Chen (Taichung, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of forming a semiconductor package device includes: providing a substrate; bonding a first die to an upper surface of the substrate through a bonding layer; bonding a second die to the upper surface of the substrate through the bonding layer, the second die laterally separated from the first die; depositing an insulati...