ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,636, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to ELSYCA N.V. (Leuven, Belgium).
"PCB metal balancing" was invented by Bart Juul Wilhelmina Van Den Bossche (Leuven, Belgium) and Robrecht Lode Florent Belis (Leuven, Belgium).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example embodiments describe a computer-implemented method for balancing an electrochemical deposition of metal on a PCB substrate; the method including i) obtaining a layout of the metal on the PCB substrate comprising at least one active area having a circuit layout and a balancing area available for the balancing; ii) dividing the substrate area in a plurality of finite elements; iii) determin...