ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,531, issued on June 23, was assigned to AT&S Austria Technologie & Systemtechnik Aktiengsellschaft (Leoben, Austria).
"Component carrier with flexible portions and manufacturing method" was invented by Dieter Jeglitsch (Bruck/Mur, Austria), Gerald Weis (Bruck/Mur, Austria) and Bronson Stolte (Howell, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A component carrier having a stack with at least one electrically insulating layer structure and/or at least one electrically conductive layer structure, wherein the stack includes: i) a central rigid portion; ii) a first flexible portion, extending from a first side of the central rigid portion; and ...