ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,896, issued on July 15, was assigned to DynaEnergetics Europe GmbH (Troisdorf, Germany).
"Detonator including a multidimensional circuit board" was invented by Christian Eitschberger (Munich), Sascha Thieltges (Siegburg, Germany) and Andreas Robert Zemla (Much, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A detonator includes a detonating capsule, a detonator head storing an electronic circuit board, and a retaining arm configured to fix the detonating capsule to the detonator head. The electronic circuit board is a multidimensional circuit board that extends from the detonator head into engagement with the detonating capsule."
The patent...