ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,733,435, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Redistribution layer metallic layout structure and method with warpage reduction" was invented by Dian-Hau Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Hsiang-Ku Shen (Hsinchu City, Taiwan) and Yu-Hsiung Wang (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a method according to some embodiments. The method includes receiving an integrated circuit (IC) layout of a semiconductor structure that includes a redistribution layout (RDL) structure having a plurality of RDL metallic features; modifying the IC layout su...