ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,931, issued on May 5, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).
"Guided pad structures formed in circuit board" was invented by James L. Petivan (Austin, Texas), Bhyrav M. Mutnury (Austin, Texas) and Sandor T. Farkas (Round Rock, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit board may include a plurality of electrically-conductive layers separated and supported by a plurality of dielectric layers of insulating material laminated together and a channel formed at an edge of the circuit board through at least one dielectric layer of the plurality of dielectric layers within which an electrically-conductive pad is formed from ...