ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,714, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Device, method, and system to provide passivation structures of a magnetic material based inductor" was invented by Xin Ning (Gilbert, Ariz.), Kyu-oh Lee (Chandler, Ariz.), Brent Williams (Chandler, Ariz.), Brandon C. Marin (Gilbert, Ariz.), Tarek A. Ibrahim (Mesa, Ariz.), Krishna Bharath (Chandler, Ariz.) and Sai Vadlamani (Chandler, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques and mechanisms for providing structures of a magnetic material based inductor. In an embodiment, an inductor comprises a body of a magnetic material, and a conductor which extends ...