US Patent Issued to Boardera Software on Jan. 28 for "Methods and systems for printed circuit board component placement and approval" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,809, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Boardera Software Inc. (Kitchener, Canada).

"Methods and systems for printed circuit board component placement and approval" was invented by Curtis Hunter (Kitchener, Canada) and David Workman (Kitchener, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aspect of the disclosed embodiments is a method for printed circuit board (PCB) component placement comprising: graphically displaying, on a display device, PCB design features of a PCB design; and providing a user interface control for designating one or more of the PCB design features as electrical contacts for a first selected electrical component. O...