ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,729, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Reeling device" was invented by Chih-Hung Huang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Cheng-Lung Wu (Zhunan Township, Taiwan), Yang-Ann Chu (Hsinchu City, Taiwan) and Jiun-Rong Pai (Jhubei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a reeling device may receive material via a receiving end of a set of guiding blocks positioned around a reel. The set of guiding blocks are configured with an opening at the receiving end and with one or more inner surfaces configured to guide the material on a path around a surface of the reel. ...