US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on Oct. 27 for "Slot ground for improved signal integrity" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,573, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Slot ground for improved signal integrity" was invented by Tibet Zhao (LongHua Town, China), Baal Yang (LongHua Town, China) and Yongwei Chen (LongHua Town, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device includes a printed circuit board (PCB) including a signal trace electrically coupled to a signal via. The device further includes a slot ground configured to reduce signal interference with respect to the signal via. The slot ground includes a slot formed in the PCB at least partially surrounding the signal via. The slot ground further includes metal plating ...