ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,264, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Layout of signal traces" was invented by Yung-Chung Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A layout of signal traces includes a first set of signal traces and a second set of signal traces that are used for transmitting a first differential signal and a second differential signal respectively. Each set of signal traces includes a first part, a second part, and a third part along the direction of signal transmission. Different parts of the same signal trace as a whole is not straight. All the first parts are in a first signal layer an...