ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,409, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to NIKO SEMICONDUCTOR Co. LTD. (New Taipei, Taiwan).

"Circuit board" was invented by Chung-Ming Leng (New Taipei, Taiwan), Chih-Cheng Hsieh (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Wei-Lun Wang (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Pin-Rui Huang (New Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit board includes a substrate and a first metal circuit layer. The substrate has an upper surface and a lower surface opposite to the upper surface. The first metal circuit layer is located on the upper surface, and the first metal circuit layer includes a first line area and a second line area. The first line area and the second lin...