ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,692, issued on July 14, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).

"Printed circuit board and dynamic brake circuit comprising same" was invented by Shunta Haga (Yamanashi, Japan) and Tsutomu Shikagawa (Yamanashi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In this printed circuit board, on which two first relays and a single second relay can be selectively mounted, two shared through-holes which are shared by the connection of the terminals of the first relays and the connection of the terminal of the second relay and two first relay-dedicated through-holes which are used only for the connection of the terminals of the first relays ar...