ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,828, issued on April 29, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Circuit board" was invented by Kosuke Nishio (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit board includes a first section on a left side of a third section in a signal-conductor-layer left-right direction and extending in parallel or substantially in parallel with the third section in a signal-conductor-layer front-back direction when viewed in a stacking direction. The first section includes first thin line portions and first thick line portions, each of the first thick line portions has a line width greater than a line width of each...