ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,541, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to IONCOR LTD (Uusikaupunki, Finland).
"Embedded busbars for load switching" was invented by Juuso Kelkka (Uusikaupunki, Finland) and Toni Karsikas (Uusikaupunki, Finland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a printed circuit board (PCB) for load switching between an electric power supply and one or more loads. The PCB comprises a PCB body, a busbar embedded into the PCB body for acting as a heat sink and one or more switches for the load switching, wherein the one or more switches are coupled to the busbar for routing an electric current for the load switching through the busbar."
The pat...