ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,127, issued on July 21, was assigned to AT&S Austria Technologie & Systemtechnik AG (Leoben, Austria).

"Component carrier with protruding dielectric signal element and manufacture method" was invented by Bernhard Reitmaier (Polstal Moderbrugg, Austria), Ahmad Bader Alothman Alterkawi (Graz, Austria) and Sebastian Sattler (Graz, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A component carrier-includes i) a stack with at least one electrically insulating layer structure and/or at least one electrically conductive layer structure; ii) at least one signal element, wherein the signal element protrudes from the outermost layer structure of the s...