ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,403, issued on March 31, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Printed circuit board" was invented by Jin Uk Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Youn Gyu Han (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jin Won Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Da Yeon Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Yong Duk Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printed circuit board includes a substrate, a first pad and a second pad, respectively disposed on an upper side of the substrate, a first socket disposed in the substrate and including a first circuit, and a first trace disposed in the substrate and disposed between the first a...