ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,232, issued on June 30, was assigned to TONG HSING ELECTRONIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Taipei City, Taiwan).

"Printed circuit board and method for making the same" was invented by Cheng-Yu Chen (Hsinchu County, Taiwan), Shih-Han Wu (Hsinchu County, Taiwan), Jhih-Wei Lai (Hsinchu County, Taiwan), Jian-Yu Shih (Hsinchu County, Taiwan) and Ming-Yen Pan (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printed circuit board (PCB) is disclosed. The PCB includes a substrate having a plurality of through holes, a plurality of thermally-conductive blocks disposed in the through holes respectively, bonding structures respectively disposed in e...