ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,914, issued on May 20, was assigned to Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Kyoto-fu, Japan).

"Multilayer circuit board having signal and power isolation circuit" was invented by Tarou Higuchi (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Yoshihiro Imanishi (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Yasushi Saito (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Akio Igarashi (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Minehito Yoshida (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Hiroyuki Honda (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Masaki Inui (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Yuya Nagaoka (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multilayer circuit board having a signal and power isolation circuit, which can suppress the capacitive coupling between a chip inductor and a groun...