US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on March 18 for "Modified internal clearance(s) at connector pin aperture(s) of a circuit board" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,494, issued on March 18, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Modified internal clearance(s) at connector pin aperture(s) of a circuit board" was invented by James D. Bielick (Pine Island, Minn.), Theron Lee Lewis (Rochester, Minn.), David J. Braun (St. Charles, Minn.), John R. Dangler (Rochester, Minn.), Timothy P. Younger (Rochester, Minn.), Stephen Michael Hugo (Stewartville, Minn.) and Timothy Jennings (Rochester, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of fabricating a multilayer circuit board is provided which includes forming a layer of a the multilayer circuit board with an internal cl...