ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,366, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Microelectronic package with antenna waveguide" was invented by Yiqi Tang (Allen, Texas), Rajen Murugan (Dallas) and Harshpreet Bakshi (Dallas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microelectronic package includes a waveguide radiation receiver formed in a first conductor layer of a multilayer package substrate, the multilayer package substrate comprising the first conductor layer spaced from a second conductor layer by a dielectric layer. The microelectronic package further includes a tubular waveguide mounted to the multilayer package substrate such that a central...