ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,856, issued on June 10, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Component shielding" was invented by Wen Shian Lin (New Taipei, Taiwan), Chien Hua Hsu (New Taipei, Taiwan), Shihwen Lee (New Taipei, Taiwan), Bing-Feng Wang (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Chijer Wang (Taipei, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques and apparatuses directed to component shielding are described in this document. A first aspect relates to a system including a printed circuit board (PCB) oriented along a first plane, a device on the PCB, and a component shield having a wall structure oriented perpendicular to the first plane and a cover stru...