ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,993, issued on March 31, was assigned to SILICONWARE PRECISION INDUSTRIES Co. LTD. (Taichung City, Taiwan).

"Electrical detection method" was invented by Chun-Yi Wu (Taichung, Taiwan), Cheng-Tsai Hsieh (Taichung, Taiwan), Cheng-Shao Chen (Taichung, Taiwan), Meng-Chieh Liao (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Yu-Hsiang Nien (Taichung, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrical detection method provides a wiring structure including a base material body and a plurality of contact portions bonded to the base material body. Each of the contact portions includes an electrical detection pad exposed from a surface of the base material body, an e...