US Patent Issued to Sandisk Technologies on May 20 for "Mounting of capacitors on printed circuit boards for non-volatile memory devices" (Malaysian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,942, issued on May 20, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Mounting of capacitors on printed circuit boards for non-volatile memory devices" was invented by Uthayarajan A L Rasalingam (Penang, Malaysia), Muhammad Bashir Bin Mansor (Penang, Malaysia) and Zol Effendi Bin Zolkefli (Penang, Malaysia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrolytic capacitor can be located in a notch in a side of a PCB with its pins resting on electrical contact pads on the surface of the PCB in a pair of channels in the upper side of the PCB extending away from the sides of the cavity and attached to the contact pads by solder pa...