ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,774, issued on April 14, was assigned to Infineon Technologies AG (Neubiberg, Germany).

"Electrical connection element and correspond method and apparatus with outgassing grooves that remove trapped gasses" was invented by Suhaimi Azizan (Kajang, Malaysia), Melvin Levardo (Carmona, Philippines) and Milad Mostofizadeh (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A electrical connection element includes a planar mating surface adapted for mating with a metal bonding surface, a rim that forms an enclosed shape around the planar mating surface, and a plurality of outgassing grooves formed in the planar mating surface, wherein each of the outg...