ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,279, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Integrated circuit package and method of forming same" was invented by Chen-Hua Yu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Jiun Yi Wu (Zhongli, Taiwan) and Szu-Wei Lu (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment is a package including a package substrate and a package component bonded to the package substrate, the package component including an interposer, an optical die bonded to the interposer, the optical die including an optical coupler, an integrated circuit die bonded to the interposer adjacent the optical die, a lens adapter ad...