ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,677,372, issued on July 7, was assigned to QUAN MEI TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Kaohsiung City, Taiwan).

"Circuit board, electronic device having the circuit board and method of manufacturing the electronic device" was invented by Ching-Ming Fang (Kaohsiung City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit board includes a substrate having opposite upper and lower surfaces, and an insertion hole extending through the upper and lower surfaces and having an expansion hole portion and an insertion hole portion connected to and communicating with each other. The insertion hole has a maximum width measured from one end of the insertion hole porti...