ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,733,540, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Integrated circuit packages, devices using the same, and methods of forming the same" was invented by Wensen Hung (Zhubei City, Taiwan) and Tsung-Yu Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment, a device includes: an integrated circuit package including: a package component; and a package stiffener attached to the package component; and a heat spreader attached to the integrated circuit package, a main portion of the heat spreader disposed above the package stiffener, a protruding portion of the heat spread...