{"id":903914,"date":"2026-06-10T19:17:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T19:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cri-one.com\/blog\/?p=903914"},"modified":"2026-06-19T07:21:32","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T07:21:32","slug":"the-origin-of-autophi-v19-qsfp28-optical-bga256-kicad-design-package-2017-invent-deposition-648","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cri-one.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/10\/the-origin-of-autophi-v19-qsfp28-optical-bga256-kicad-design-package-2017-invent-deposition-648\/","title":{"rendered":"The Origin of AutoPhi V19 QSFP28 Optical BGA256 KiCad design package \u2014 2017 Invent Deposition #648"},"content":{"rendered":"

Invent Deposition #648 · © 2017 Christopher Gabriel Brown<\/p>\n

Long before it became AutoPhi V19 QSFP28 Optical BGA256 KiCad design package<\/a>, this idea was written down and copyrighted in 2017 as Invent Deposition #648<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

“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<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

→ See where it graduated: AutoPhi V19 QSFP28 Optical BGA256 KiCad design package<\/a><\/p>\n

Provenance: published 2017 in the Invent Depositions<\/em> 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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