ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,628,272, issued on May 12, was assigned to STMicroelectronics (Grenoble 2) SAS (Grenoble, France).

"Integrated circuit optical package comprising a flexible electrical connection element" was invented by Romain Coffy (Voiron, France) and Younes Boutaleb (Grenbole, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated-circuit package includes a flexible electrical-connection element sandwiched between a first face of a first multilayer support substrate and a second face of a second multilayer support substrate. The flexible electrical-connection element laterally projects with respect to, and is in electrical contact with at least one of, t...