US Patent Issued to L3Harris Technologies on April 21 for "Planar transformer" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,234, issued on April 21, was assigned to L3Harris Technologies Inc. (Melbourne, Fla.).

"Planar transformer" was invented by Paul Kern (Loveland, Ohio), Justin Graves (Middletown, Ohio), Josh Basler (Cincinnati), Nathan Blake (Miamisburg, Ohio) and Dung Nguyen (Cincinnati).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A planar transformer including first and second parts of a core with least one of the first and second parts having a center post that resides in an aperture of a PWB. The PWB includes primary windings and secondary windings that surround the center post, are magnetically coupled by the core, and are electrically independent. Separatin...