US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on Nov. 25 for "Electroplating edge connector pins of printed circuit boards without using tie bars" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,484,156, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Electroplating edge connector pins of printed circuit boards without using tie bars" was invented by Mingyi Yu (Saratoga, Calif.) and Gregory Patrick Bodi (Santa Cruz, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for forming a printed circuit board includes: forming on a substrate a first conductive layer for a first edge connector pin and a first conductive layer for a second edge connector pin, wherein the first conductive layer for the first edge connector pin and the first conductive layer for the second edge connector pin are electrically coupled to o...