ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,243, issued on June 30, was assigned to Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd. (Osaka, Japan) and SUMITOMO ELECTRIC PRINTED CIRCUITS INC. (Shiga, Japan).
"Flexible printed circuit board and method of manufacturing flexible printed circuit board" was invented by Shingo Nagata (Osaka, Japan), Shoichiro Sakai (Osaka, Japan), Daisuke Sato (Shiga, Japan) and Junichi Motomura (Shiga, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flexible printed circuit board includes: an electrically insulating layer having a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface; a first wiring disposed on the first surface; a second wiring disposed on the...