ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,635, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Thermo-electric cooler for dissipating heat of optical engine" was invented by Hsing-Kuo Hsia (Jhubei, Taiwan), Chih-Kuang Yu (Chiayi, Taiwan), Chen-Hua Yu (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Jui Lin Chao (New Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes bonding a photonic engine onto an interposer, and bonding a package component onto the interposer. The package component includes a device die. The method further includes encapsulating the package component and the photonic engine in an encapsulant, attaching a thermal-elec...