ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,063, issued on July 14, was assigned to DELTA ELECTRONICS INC. (Taoyuan City, Taiwan).

"Inductor device" was invented by Chia-Ming Liu (Taoyuan City, Taiwan), Ruei-Wun Jhong (Taoyuan City, Taiwan), Ho Huang (Taoyuan City, Taiwan) and Lei Ren (Taoyuan City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inductor device includes a hollow magnetic core and at least one winding assembly. The winding assembly includes a plurality of conductive structures and U-shaped conductors, and the conductive structures are below the hollow magnetic core. The conductive structures are arranged along a segment of the hollow magnetic core, and the U-shaped c...