ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,083, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Optical devices and methods of manufacture" was invented by Chen-Hua Yu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Hsing-Kuo Hsia (Jhubei, Taiwan), Chih-Wei Tseng (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Hua-Kung Chiu (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Jui Lin Chao (New Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Optical devices and methods of manufacture are presented herein. In an embodiment, an optical device is provided that includes an optical package having a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface, a laser die package having a third surface and a fourth surfa...