ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,363, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"High reliability sensor" was invented by Daiki Komatsu (Beppu, Japan), Masamitsu Matsuura (Beppu, Japan) and Mao Sugeno (Beppu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device includes first and second semiconductor dies, the first semiconductor die having: a side extending in a first plane of orthogonal first and second directions; a sensor circuit along the side; and a conductive terminal extending outward from the side along an orthogonal third direction, and the second semiconductor die bonded to the first semiconductor die and having: a bottom si...