US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Nov. 11 for "Printed circuit board with reduced via striping" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,215, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Printed circuit board with reduced via striping" was invented by Sandor Farkas (Round Rock, Texas) and Bhyrav Mutnury (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printed circuit board includes a dielectric material, a signal trace on a surface of the dielectric material, a signal layer within the dielectric material, a via including plating, and multiple back drill locations. The plating provides an electrical communication between the signal trace and the signal layer, and the via has a diameter. The back drill locations are along a length of the via ...