ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,549, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to MARVELL ISRAEL (M.I.S.L) LTD. (Yokne'am, Israel).

"Printed circuit board via structures with reduced insertion loss distortion" was invented by Liav Ben Artsi (Nahariya, Israel) and Noam Kutscher (Shoham, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printed circuit board (PCB) includes a plurality of stacked layers, each layer having a major plane defining a major plane of the PCB, a plurality of signal pads disposed on a signal pad layer of the PCB that is parallel to the major plane of the PCB, and a plurality of signal vias, each signal via in the plurality of signal vias having a longitudinal ax...