ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,484,142, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to HUIZHOU TCL MOBILE COMMUNICATION Co. LTD (Guangdong, China).

"PCB and terminal device using same" was invented by Wei Chen (Guangdong, China), Zhiwei Chen (Guangdong, China), Pan Zhang (Guangdong, China) and Yibing Chen (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed in the present application are a PCB and a terminal device using the PCB. At least one electric conductor is added on an exposed section of the PCB, so that the exposed section is divided into at least two sections, thereby the problem of noise interference can be solved without extensively changing the original circuit ...