US Patent Issued to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING on June 16 for "Modular routable circuit board conductor blocks" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,660,095, issued on June 16, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Modular routable circuit board conductor blocks" was invented by Jason Harrigan (Sultan, Wash.) and Kajsa Ava Johnson (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques, elements, and assemblies for high current board-level conductive pathways on printed circuit boards are provided. In one example, a method includes providing a circuit board having footprint elements that define a route between endpoints. The method includes applying solder paste onto the footprint elements, and placing modular conductive blocks along the route onto the sold...