ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,249,518, issued on March 11, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Semiconductor device comprising interconnect structures" was invented by Jiun Yi Wu (Zhongli, Taiwan) and Chen-Hua Yu (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system substrate package, a system package, and methods of forming the same are described herein. The system substrate package includes an integrated substrate with multiple discrete interconnect structures. In embodiments the multiple discrete interconnect structures are placed and encapsulated and have a gap formed between the multiple discrete interconnect struc...