ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,263, issued on July 7, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Enhancing the quality factor of planar capacitors without impacting the resonance frequency" was invented by Tejinder Singh (Manotick, Canada) and Navjot Kaur Khaira (Manotick, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology described herein is directed towards a planar-type capacitor with a modified design (relative to standard capacitors), in which an array of interconnects facilitates electrical surface current flow between the first conductor and the second conductor, determines the self-resonant frequency of the capacitor, and provides an improved ...