ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,118, issued on March 18, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Package structure and method of fabricating the same" was invented by Yu-Sheng Lin (Hsinchu County, Taiwan), Po-Yao Lin (Hsinchu County, Taiwan), Shu-Shen Yeh (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Chin-Hua Wang (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Shin-Puu Jeng (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A package structure includes a circuit substrate, a semiconductor package, a thermal interface material, a lid structure and a heat dissipation structure. The semiconductor package is disposed on and electrically connected to the circuit substrate. The the...