ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,509, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Qorvo US Inc. (Greensboro, N.C.).
"Edge enabled void constructions" was invented by Jan-Willem Zweers (Nieuwleusen, Netherlands), Richard Perkins (Encinitas, Calif.) and Bror Peterson (Fairview, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, a printed circuit board is disclosed. The printed circuit board includes a substrate, a conductive plane, and at least one switch. The conductive plane includes an edge enabled void construction (EEVC) along a geometric perimeter of the conductive plane, the EEVC having an EEVC void that defines an EEVC perimeter that extends into the conductive pl...