ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,252, issued on July 22, was assigned to Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Kyoto-fu, Japan).
"Circuit module and large-scale circuit system" was invented by Osamu Miki (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Tatsuya Hosotani (Nagaokakyo, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit module includes a circuit module substrate having an area smaller than a large-scale circuit board, an electronic circuit component mounted on the circuit module substrate, a connection pin provided to the circuit module substrate, and a circuit-module-substrate-side fitting structure part provided to the circuit module substrate. A pin receptacle and the connection pin are...