ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,546, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Detecting electrolyte on circuit boards" was invented by Pouya Ghalei (San Jose, Calif.), Cong Zheng (San Jose, Calif.), Shunlong Xiao (San Jose, Calif.), Manpreet Singh (Union City, Calif.), Charles E Chang (Coto De Caza, Calif.) and Steve Chikin Lo (Palo Alto, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery circuit board includes a substrate, a first trace configured to receive a voltage and forming a first closed loop around a perimeter of the substrate, and a second trace forming a second closed loop around the perimeter of the substrate. The battery circu...