The Origin of AutoPhi V19 QSFP28 Optical BGA256 KiCad design package — 2017 Invent Deposition #648

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FIRST TO MARKETPublicly documented 2017 · Invent Deposition #648

Invent Deposition #648 · © 2017 Christopher Gabriel Brown

Long before it became AutoPhi V19 QSFP28 Optical BGA256 KiCad design package, this idea was written down and copyrighted in 2017 as Invent Deposition #648:

“software software please make my software software design software that relates in vector and code preferences that is an easy and re-sell able application package maker and formatted”— © 2017 Christopher Gabriel Brown

Original 2017 entry, Deposition #648
The original 2017 entry, preserved by the Internet Archive (2019-12-05).
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It has since graduated from a one-line idea into an engineered product.

→ See where it graduated: AutoPhi V19 QSFP28 Optical BGA256 KiCad design package

Provenance: published 2017 in the Invent Depositions collection; part of an intellectual-property portfolio with U.S. patent applications dating to 2012; independently timestamped by the Internet Archive. First to market — documented public offering, not a determination of patent priority.