US Patent Issued to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing on Dec. 23 for "Semiconductor device and methods of manufacture" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,588, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Semiconductor device and methods of manufacture" was invented by Chen-Hua Yu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chuei-Tang Wang (Taichung, Taiwan), Chia-Chia Lin (Kaohsiung, Taiwan) and Chung-Hao Tsai (Huatan Township, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical interposer is utilized in order to send and receive signals from external sources such as an optical fiber. The optical interposer receives the signals, routes the signals to various attached components, and when desired, converts the signals between optical and electrical signals. Th...