ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,550,247, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).
"Paddle card optimization" was invented by Chang-Kai Chu (Zhongli District, Taiwan), Pei-Ju Lin (Taoyuan District, Taiwan), Ching-Huei Chen (Taoyuan, Taiwan) and Bhyrav Mutnury (Round Rock, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A paddle card includes a printed circuit board (PCB), a shielded cable, and an electromagnetic interference (EM) shield. The PCB includes a first metal layer on a top surface of the PCB, a second metal layer within the PCB, and a cavity in the top surface of the PC. The cavity exposes the second metal layer. The first metal layer incl...