ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,404, issued on July 22, was assigned to PRAGMATIC SEMICONDUCTOR Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Electronic circuits and their methods of manufacture" was invented by Richard Price (Sedgefield, Great Britain) and Brian Cobb (Sedgefield, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic circuit comprises a first resistor (1) and a second resistor (2). The first resistor comprises: a first sheet (10) of resistive material; and a first pair (11, 12) of conductive contacts, each arranged in electrical contact with the first sheet, and arranged such that a shortest resistive path in the first sheet between the first pair of cont...