US Patent Issued to Apple on Oct. 7 for "Electronic device having conductive contact soldered to printed circuit" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,514, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Electronic device having conductive contact soldered to printed circuit" was invented by Peter A Dvorak (Menlo Park, Calif.), Eric W Bates (San Jose, Calif.), Ana Papio Toda (San Jose, Calif.), Yiren Wang (Cupertino, Calif.), Hao Xu (Cupertino, Calif.), Yuan Tao (Santa Clara, Calif.), Han Wang (Campbell, Calif.), Jack R Lanzi (San Francisco) and Ronald Lam (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device may be provided with a liquid crystal polymer (LCP) printed circuit having conductive trace and a hole. A conductive flange may be soldered t...