ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,574, issued on March 3, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Circuit board" was invented by Chikara Ohmori (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit board includes a board, an interface formed on the board, a discharge wiring pair formed on the board and having a first discharge wire connected to the interface and a second discharge wire having a second tip portion facing a first tip portion of the first discharge wire with an interval, an electronic component installed in a signal path connected to the interface, a ground path connected to the second discharge wire, and a ...