ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,538, issued on June 23, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for automated degassing during the manufacturing of a high speed design" was invented by Supatta Niramarnkarn (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a computer-implemented method for degassing for the manufacture of a high speed design. The method includes analyzing information related to a printed circuit board (PCB) that includes a set of layers and a plurality of voids. The method identifies a void from the plurality of voids, where the void has a position among the PCB set of layers. The method deter...