ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,787,858, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Semiconductor device with an embedded active device" was invented by Gabriel H. Loh (Bellevue, Wash.), Rahul Agarwal (Santa Clara, Calif.), Raja Swaminathan (Austin, Texas) and Brett P. Wilkerson (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes one or more active devices disposed between a processor die and a package substrate. The semiconductor device includes a first layer with a processor die, a second layer with one or more active devices, and a third layer with a package substrate, where the second layer is disp...