ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,488, issued on April 22, was assigned to YUAN ZE UNIVERSITY (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

"Interconnect structure for insertion loss reduction in signal transmission and method thereof" was invented by Cheng En Ho (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Shun Cheng Chang (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Jun Chou Yu (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Cheng Yu Lee (Taoyuan, Taiwan) and Chien Chang Huang (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An interconnect structure for insertion loss reduction in signal transmission and a method thereof are disclosed. In an embodiment, an interconnect is formed on a substrate by chemical etching process, and when the interconnect is protected by photores...