ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,635,066, issued on May 19, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Thermally decoupled signal transmission lines" was invented by Samuel R. Connor (Apex, N.C.), Matthew Doyle (Chatfield, Minn.), Matteo Cocchini (New York) and Layne A. Berge (Rochester, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A thermally decoupled signal transmission line includes a first segment and a second segment. Each of the first and second segments has an elongated body including a signal conductor, at least one reference plane, and a dielectric interposed between the signal conductor and the at least one reference plane. The first segmen...