US Patent Issued to R&D Circuits on Dec. 23 for "Capacitor in socket" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,304, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to R&D Circuits (San Jose, Calif.).

"Capacitor in socket" was invented by Donald Eric Thompson (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An improved method and structure for forming an electrical interconnects mechanism in a Power Distribution Network (PDN) by placing capacitors on the top of the pin array on the printed circuit board (PCB) of the structure to decouple the PDN and results in lower impedance benefitting the frequency range of the PDN effecting a significant performance improvement in the spring-pin inductance from the transmission line. This reduction in impedance reduces the...