ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,267,946, issued on April 1, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Power delivery network noise isolation in a computing device" was invented by Jason Gonzalez (Solana Beach, Calif.) and Lili Xu (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for power delivery network ("PDN") isolation includes a multi-layer printed circuit board ("PCB") in which a power distribution layer has a root conductive region and two or more branch conductive regions fanning out from the root conductive region. Each branch conductive region is insulated from other branch conductive regions by a non-conductive region. Each branch conductive region has at...