ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,062, issued on July 14, was assigned to Realtek Semiconductor Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"Inductor" was invented by Chieh-Pin Chang (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Cheng-Wei Luo (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inductor device includes a first wire and a second wire. The first wire includes a first sub-wire and a second sub-wire. The first sub-wire is disposed in a first area. The second sub-wire is disposed in a second area, and the first sub-wire and the second sub-wire are located on different layers. The second wire includes a third sub-wire and a fourth sub-wire. The third sub-wire is disposed in the second area, and locat...