ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,361, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"Packaging method and associated packaging structure" was invented by Chih-Ming Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Yuan-Chih Hsieh (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Chung-Yi Yu (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a packaging method, including: providing a first semiconductor substrate; forming a bonding region on the first semiconductor substrate, wherein the bonding region of the first semiconductor substrate includes a first bonding metal layer and a second bonding metal layer; providing a second semicond...