ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,951, issued on May 6, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Semiconductor package structure having ring portion with recess for adhesive" was invented by Hui-Ting Lin (Tainan, Taiwan), Chin-Fu Kao (Taipei, Taiwan) and Chen-Shien Chen (Zhubei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A package structure is provided. The package structure includes a substrate, a cover element, a semiconductor device, a protruding element, an adhesive element, and an electrical connector. The cover element is disposed on the substrate and having a recess. The semiconductor device is disposed on the substrate an...