ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,962, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to LITE-ON Technology Corp. (Taipei, Taiwan).

"Transformer" was invented by Chen Chen (Taipei City, Taiwan), De-Jia Lu (Taipei City, Taiwan), Yong-Long Syu (Taipei City, Taiwan), Kai-De Chen (Taipei City, Taiwan) and Chao-Lin Chung (Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a transformer, including a first resonance coil, a primary coil, a secondary coil, a second resonance coil, and a magnetic core which includes a first base, a second base, a third base, a magnetic cover, a first center pillar, a second center pillar, a third center pillar, a fourth center pillar, a fifth cen...