ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,547, issued on July 28, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo).

"Transformer device and semiconductor device" was invented by Toshihiro Imasaka (Tokyo) and Yasuo Yamaguchi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to the present disclosure, a transformer device comprises a first coil; a conductor provided outside the first coil in plan view and having a reference potential equal to a reference potential of the first coil; a first insulating layer provided above the first coil; a second coil provided on an upper surface of the first insulating layer; a second insulating layer provided between the second coil and the c...