US Patent Issued to Intel on July 28 for "Coupled inductors with GaN switches in GaN 3D power block" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,520, issued on July 28, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Coupled inductors with GaN switches in GaN 3D power block" was invented by Ahmed Abou-Alfotouh (Dublin, Calif.), Jonathan Douglas (Cave Creek, Ariz.), Alan Wu (Toronto), Nachiket Venkappayya Desai (Portland, Ore.), Han Wui Then (Portland, Ore.), Harish Krishnamurthy (Beaverton, Ore.), Kaladhar Radhakrishnan (Chandler, Ariz.), Sanka Ganesan (Chandler, Ariz.) and Krishnan Ravichandran (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments disclosed herein include a coupled inductor. In an embodiment, the coupled inductor comprises a first inductor and a s...