ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,793, issued on July 1, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Semiconductor package" was invented by Chin-Hua Wang (New Taipei, Taiwan), Shu-Shen Yeh (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Yu-Sheng Lin (Hsinchu County, Taiwan), Po-Yao Lin (Hsinchu County, Taiwan) and Shin-Puu Jeng (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor package provided herein includes a wiring substrate, a semiconductor component, conductor terminals, a bottom stiffener and a top stiffener. The wiring substrate has a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface. The semiconductor component is disposed o...