ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,466, issued on June 24, was assigned to UNIMICRON GERMANY GMBH (Geldern, Germany).

"Method for producing a printed circuit board, and printed circuit board having at least one embedded electronic component" was invented by Oliver Holz (Kamp-Lintfort, Germany), Manuel Schumann (Wesel, Germany) and Dieter Kohler (Issum, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing a printed circuit board having at least one embedded electronic component, in which a support layer and a positioning layer having a recess somewhat larger than the corresponding base area of the printed circuit board module are provide, the positioning layer...