ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,707, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Realtek Semiconductor Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"Inductor device" was invented by Hsiao-Tsung Yen (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inductor device includes a first trace, a second trace, and a second switch. The first trace includes a first sub-trace, a first switch and a second sub-trace. The first sub-trace includes a first line and a second line. The first switch is configured to switch the first sub-trace to the first line or switch the first sub-trace to the second line. The second sub-trace is coupled to one terminal of the first sub-trace at a first node. The second trac...