ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,344, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to UNITED MICROELECTRONICS CORP. (Hsin-Chu City, Taiwan).

"Micro display device" was invented by Chuan-Lan Lin (Chiayi City, Taiwan), Yu-Ping Wang (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Chien-Ting Lin (Tainan City, Taiwan), Chu-Fu Lin (Kaohsiung City, Taiwan), Chun-Ting Yeh (Taipei City, Taiwan), Chung-Hsing Kuo (Taipei City, Taiwan) and Yi-Feng Hsu (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor device includes a substrate having a bonding area and a pad area, a first inter-metal dielectric (IMD) layer on the substrate, a metal interconnection in the first IMD layer, a first pad on the bond...