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Minnesota Inventors Develop Printed Circuit Boards Creation Method

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 16 -- Philip Raymond Germann of Oronoco, Minn., and Mark James Jeanson of Rochester, Minn., have developed a printed circuit boards creating structure.

According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and structure are provided for creating printed circuit boards with stepped thickness. A non-laminating breakaway material layer is selectively placed between layers of the printed circuit board. A perimeter portion of the printed circuit board near the breakaway material layer is scored. Then the breakaway material layer and adjacent layers between the perimeter of the printed circuit board are removed."

The inventors were issued U.S. Patent No. 7,326,857 ...

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