ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,096, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Integrated fiber array unit structure including embedded passive optical components and method for forming the same" was invented by Chao-Jen Wang (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Tsung-Fu Tsai (Changhua County, Taiwan), Szu-Wei Lu (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Chen-Hua Yu (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Yenju Liang (Taipei City, Taiwan), Shih-Wei Liang (Taichung City, Taiwan), Jiun-Yi Wu (Taoyuan City, Taiwan), Shou-Yi Wang (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Kai-Hung Lo (Chiayi City, Taiwan) and Chia-Ning Weng (Taichung City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Offic...