US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on Jan. 20 for "Packages with multiple exposed pads" (Taiwanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,752, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Packages with multiple exposed pads" was invented by Hung-Yu Chou (Dallas), Bo-Hsun Pan (New Taipei, Taiwan), Yuh-Harng Chien (New Taipei, Taiwan), Fu-Hua Yu (New Taipei, Taiwan), Steven Alfred Kummerl (Carrollton, Texas), Jie Chen (Plano, Texas) and Rajen M. Murugan (Dallas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an example, an apparatus comprises a lead frame that includes a first row of leads, a first pad coupled to the first row of leads, and a second row of leads parallel to the first row of leads. The lead frame also includes a second pad coupled to the second ...