ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,789, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Marvell Asia Pte Ltd (Singapore).

"Shielded ball-out and via patterns for land grid array (LGA) devices" was invented by Dan Azeroual (Kiryat Ata, Israel), Liav Ben Artsi (Nahariya, Israel) and David Katz (Hadera, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic network device includes a package substrate, an Integrated Circuit (IC) mounted on the package substrate, and a plurality of interconnection terminals disposed on a surface of the package substrate. The interconnection terminals include multiple pairs of signal terminals and multiple ground terminals. The interconnection terminals ar...