US Patent Issued to CANON on Jan. 13 for "Multi-pattern substrate, functional module, and production method for functional module" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,926, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Multi-pattern substrate, functional module, and production method for functional module" was invented by Minoru Kambegawa (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique that improves productivity of a functional module on which a component is implemented near an edge. A multi-pattern substrate includes wiring substrate parts, and waste substrate parts provided around the wiring substrate parts integrally. And openings are provided in the waste substrate parts in areas that face components implemented near outer circumferences of the wiring substrate parts."

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