ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,548, issued on April 7, was assigned to Realtek Semiconductor Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"Inductor device" was invented by Cheng-Wei Luo (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Hsiao-Tsung Yen (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inductor device is disclosed herein. An electrical device is disposed in a first area of the inductor device, and the inductor device includes a first trace and a second trace. The first trace is disposed in a second area. The second trace is disposed in the second area, and coupled to the first trace. The second area is disposed an outer side of the first area, and the first area and the second area are not overl...