ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,256, issued on July 15, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Method for forming semiconductor package structure" was invented by Po-Chen Lai (Hsinchu County, Taiwan), Ming-Chih Yew (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Po-Yao Lin (Zhudong Township, Hsinchu County, Taiwan), Chin-Hua Wang (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Shin-Puu Jeng (Po-Shan Village, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of forming a semiconductor package structure is provided. The method includes disposing a first semiconductor device on an interposer substrate, disposing the interposer substrate on a carrier substrate, applying a thermal in...