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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 12, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 11, 2016
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Anne M. Mason, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Peter J. Johnston, San Francisco, CA (US);
Christine A. Laliberte, Portland, OR (US);
Dominic P. McCarthy, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Shawn X. Arnold, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
Souvik Mukherjee, Campbell, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
A circuit board includes conductive traces being sandwiched by an upper insulating layer and a lower insulating layer, a first array of conductive vias extending perpendicularly to the conductive traces, the vias in the first array of conductive vias being arranged such that any two adjacent vias in a row of vias extending along any given dimension in the first array of conductive vias are equally spaced from each other, and isolation resistors embedded within the first array of conductive vias such that each isolation resistor is disposed between at least two adjacent vias in the first array of conductive vias, each isolation resistor being disposed closer to the conductive via to which the isolation resistor is coupled than all other conductive vias surrounding the isolation resistor.