ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,262, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to ALCON INC. (Fribourg, Switzerland).

"VGA monitor emulating printed circuit board" was invented by Horst Keiler (Potsdam, Germany) and Martin Eil (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printed circuit board comprises a substrate as well as resistors and electrical connections disposed on the substrate. The substrate couples to a video graphics array connector that has pins, including video pins and return pins. A video pin transmits a video signal, and a return pin provides a ground for a corresponding video pin. The substrate has openings, where each opening can receive a pin. The resistors a...