US Patent Issued to Analog Devices on Oct. 20 for "Low profile coupled inductor" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,773, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Analog Devices Inc. (Wilmington, Mass.).

"Low profile coupled inductor" was invented by Steve Hawley (Emerald Hills, Calif.), George Anthony Serpa (San Jose, Calif.), John Brazzle (Tracy, Calif.) and Jim Yang (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A low-profile coupled inductor is disclosed to provide compact and high performance magnetic coupling. The low-profile coupled inductor has an asymmetrical geometry, having a pair of complementary ferrite cores supporting a pair of conducting strips in an alternating serpentine pattern. One or more core gaps exist between the cores to creat...