US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Sept. 9 for "Tearing security feature of printed circuit substrates" (New York, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,229, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Tearing security feature of printed circuit substrates" was invented by Arthur J. Higby (Cottekill, N.Y.), David Clifford Long (Wappingers Falls, N.Y.), James Busby (New Paltz, N.Y.), William Santiago-Fernandez (Hopewell Junction, N.Y.), John R. Dangler (Rochester, Minn.), Russell A. Budd (North Salem, N.Y.), Philipp K Buchling Rego (Wappingers Falls, N.Y.), Hannah Wendling (Poughquag, N.Y.) and Lauren Boston (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A structure of a circuitry substrate for securing an area from tampering is discl...