ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,713,873, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Container for receiving semiconductor device" was invented by Hsu Tung Yen (Kaohsiung City, Taiwan), Bo Hsiang Huang (Tainan City, Taiwan), Chen-Chieh Chiang (Kaohsiung City, Taiwan) and Ling-Sung Wang (Tainan City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A container for receiving a semiconductor device is provided. In one embodiment, the container includes an interior space, a first light reflecting coating in the interior space, a light emitter configured to emit a light from an outside of the interior space into the interior s...