ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,475, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Semiconductor packages and methods of forming the same" was invented by Sey-Ping Sun (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Chen-Hua Yu (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes bonding a first semiconductor die to a semiconductor substrate; bonding a second semiconductor die to the semiconductor substrate, wherein the second semiconductor die is laterally separated from the first semiconductor die by a gap; filling the gap between the first semiconductor die and the second semiconductor die with a metal material to form a t...