ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,540, issued on March 24, was assigned to NANYA TECHNOLOGY Corp. (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

"Semiconductor structure having dummy conductive member and manufacturing method thereof" was invented by Yi-Jen Lo (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application provides a semiconductor structure having a dummy conductive member, and a manufacturing method of the semiconductor structure. The semiconductor structure includes a first wafer including a first substrate, a first dielectric layer over the first substrate, a first bonding layer over the first dielectric layer, a first via extending through the first...