ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,430, issued on March 25, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Technologies for on-circuit board de-embedding" was invented by Bishnu Prasad Patra (Zoetermeer, Netherlands) and Stefano Pellerano (Beaverton, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technologies for on-circuit board de-embedding are disclosed. In the illustrative embodiment, several micromechanical relays on a circuit board can connect a trace on the circuit board to an open circuit, a closed circuit, a load circuit, or a through circuit. For the through circuit, the trace is connected to an integrated circuit component mounted on the circuit board. A cable i...