ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,139, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Management Services Group Inc. (Virginia Beach, Va.).

"Isolation of compartments in a layered printed circuit board, and apparatus and methods for the same" was invented by Thomas Scott Morgan (Virginia Beach, Va.), Martin Mayer (Bartlesville, Okla.) and Steven Yates (Charlottesville, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, an apparatus can include a printed circuit board (PCB) that has layers and includes a first portion and a second portion. The first portion can have a data port and a power port. A first layer is associated with data of the first portion of the PCB, and a secon...