ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,641, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Trace arrangement for printed circuit board" was invented by Shadi Ebrahimi Asl (Cary, N.C.), Stephen Aubrey Scearce (Apex, N.C.) and Linda W. Scott (Winter Springs, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of manufacturing a printed circuit board (PCB) includes arranging a first trace segment of a trace on a substrate of the PCB, the substrate being composed of fiber glass strands that define a fiber glass weave pattern, and arranging a second trace segment of the trace on the substrate at a position that is fractionally offset from the first trace ...