ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,418, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"Circuit layout of printed circuit board" was invented by Chia-Lung Wang (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Min-Hung Huang (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A layout without bridge taps includes: a routing from a CPU to a first module through a first set of pads; a routing from a first set of bridge pads to a second module through a second set of pads and a second set of bridge pads; a routing from a third set of pads to a third module; and connectors. The connectors connect pads of the first set of pads to couple the CPU with the first module, or...