US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Sept. 16 for "Systems and methods for detecting mechanical strain on a circuit board" (Taiwanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,686, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Systems and methods for detecting mechanical strain on a circuit board" was invented by Craig L. Chaiken (Pflugerville, Texas), Kuo-Chieh Lai (New Taipei, Taiwan), Hong-Ling Chen (Taoyuan, Taiwan) and Hou-Chun Wang (Linkou Dist., Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information handling system may include a strain force fuse formed on a circuit board of the information handling system, the strain force fuse configured to experience an impedance discontinuity in response to a mechanical force applied to the circuit board at or proximate to the strain ...