ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,985, issued on June 23, was assigned to NXP USA Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Semiconductor device with hybrid routing and method therefor" was invented by Chee Seng Foong (Austin, Texas), Trent Uehling (New Braunfels, Texas), Tingdong Zhou (Austin, Texas) and Kristen LeAnne Mason (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device having hybrid routing is provided. The semiconductor device includes a package substrate having a first major side and a second major side. A plurality of conductive bond-on-pad (BOP) pads and a plurality of conductive bond-on-trace (BOT) pads are formed at the first major side. A non-conductive ...