VIENNA – The World Intellectual Property Organization has issued AT&S a pair of patents related to printed circuits.
One patent covers a method and system for connecting multiple PCBs to at least one frame or carrier element, and PCB and frame or carrier element. The patent was published Sept. 16.

The second relates to a method for monitoring the temperature-time-load of a PCB and/or at least one component on a PCB, using an irreversible color-changing time-temperature indicator.

For more information, visit www.wipo.int/pctdb/en/ia.jsp?ia=AT2010/000067.