ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,922, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Power supply circuit module" was invented by Takami Muto (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Tsutomu Ishige (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Takanari Okada (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Hiroki Minami (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Munetake Miyashita (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power supply circuit module includes a power supply circuit including a lower substrate, an upper substrate parallel or substantially parallel to the lower substrate, an inductor, and chip components mounted on the lower substrate, switching circuit components and chip components mounted on the...