ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,715, issued on July 22, was assigned to NITTO DENKO Corp. (Osaka, Japan).
"Opto-electric hybrid board" was invented by Tadao Okawa (Ibaraki, Japan), Takashi Oda (Ibaraki, Japan), Masataka Yamaji (Ibaraki, Japan) and Kazushi Ichikawa (Ibaraki, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an opto-electric hybrid board, an electric circuit part E is provided on a first surface side of an insulative layer, and includes pads for mounting an optical element, pads for a driving device for the optical element, and electrical interconnect lines Y including interconnect line portions A connecting the pads. A metal reinforcement layer and an optical...