ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,708,030, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Method of filling gaps between dies using silicon dioxide" was invented by Chih-Hang Chang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Kuang-Wei Cheng (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Ku-Feng Yang (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of forming an IC structure includes bonding a first die to a first side of a substrate and bonding a second die to the first side of the substrate. The second die is adjacent to the first die and a gap is defined between the first and second dies. The method includes forming a first dielectric layer (DL) over the ...