US Patent Issued to NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY on Feb. 24 for "Method for detecting undesired connection on printed circuit board" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,535, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Method for detecting undesired connection on printed circuit board" was invented by Ming-Tsang Lee (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Wei-Chih Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Jia-Wei Lu (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Yu-Bin Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for detecting an undesired connection forming a short circuit on a printed circuit board (PCB) based on an original image of the PCB includes steps of: performing binarization on the original image to generate a binary image that has an external boundary; determining, on the binary image, a trace ...