ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,787,160, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to JOHNAN Corp. (Uji, Japan).
"Circuit board" was invented by Yoshinari Matsuda (Uji, Japan), Kazuhiro Kitagawa (Uji, Japan) and Tsuyoshi Nakamura (Uji, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit board includes a base material portion having a sheet-like shape, an electric circuit pattern portion being formed on at least one of surfaces of the base material portion and being conductive, a folding portion where a linear fold is to be formed to divide, when the circuit board is bent, each of the base material portion and the electric circuit pattern portion into a first area and a second area, and...