ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,635,559, issued on May 19, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Semiconductor package and method of forming same" was invented by Ting-Chen Tseng (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Sih-Hao Liao (New Taipei City, Taiwan), Yu-Hsiang Hu (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Hung-Jui Kuo (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A package and a method forming the same are provided. The package includes an integrated circuit die. A sidewall of the integrated circuit die has a first facet and a second facet. The first facet and the second facet have different slopes. The package includes an encapsulant surrounding the integrate...