ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,920, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Semiconductor devices with integrated passive devices and methods of manufacture" was invented by Shin-Puu Jeng (Po-Shan Village, Taiwan), Po-Yao Chuang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Shuo-Mao Chen (New Taipei City, Taiwan) and Feng-Cheng Hsu (New Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Semiconductor devices and methods of manufacture are provided wherein multiple integrated passive devices are integrated together utilizing an integrated fan out process in order to form a larger device with a smaller footprint. In particular embodiments ...