US Patent Issued to CISCO TECHNOLOGY on June 30 for "Using glass weave marker structure to authenticate printed circuit boards" (California, Tennessee, North Carolina, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,239, issued on June 30, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Using glass weave marker structure to authenticate printed circuit boards" was invented by Joel Goergen (Soulsbyville, Calif.), Sam Gupta (Costa Mesa, Calif.), Dylan Thomas Walker (Austin, Texas), Chirag K. Shroff (Cary, N.C.), Christopher Shannon Gourley (Sweetwater, Tenn.), Rachel Marie Weeks (Knoxville, Tenn.), Elizabeth Ann Kochuparambil (Morgan Hill, Calif.) and Ronald Lee Shaffer II (Knoxville, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a printed circuit board (PCB) that includes a woven glass laminate layer. The woven glass lamin...