ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,199, issued on July 21, was assigned to Eagle Technology LLC (Melbourne, Fla.).

"Method of fabricating high accuracy embedded resistors in flex substrates" was invented by Matt Bauer (Melbourne, Fla.), Jamel Burruss (Palm Bay, Fla.) and Steven Kobosko (Vienna, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprising: forming a polyimide layer; forming a thin film resistor on the polyimide layer; forming, on the thin film resistor and the polyimide layer, a metallization layer that includes metal contacts on opposing ends of the thin film resistor but leaves an exposed surface of the polyimide layer; baking the polyimide layer, the thin...