ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,415, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to DELL PRODUCTS LP (Round Rock, Texas).
"Non-uniform surface mount pads" was invented by Umesh Chandra (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Douglas Wallace (Round Rock, Texas) and Bhyrav Mutnury (Austin, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A high-speed transmission circuit comprises, as part of a signal path, a connector pin disposed on a pad that comprises an unused pad region. The unused pad region is not considered part of the signal path but is part of a resonant sub-circuit. In various embodiments, by properly adjusting the dimensions of the pad region and other structures in the high-speed transmission c...