US Patent Issued to REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR on Sept. 8 for "Asymmetric spiral inductor" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,718, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Asymmetric spiral inductor" was invented by Hsiao-Tsung Yen (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Yuh-Sheng Jean (Hsinchu County, Taiwan) and Ta-Hsun Yeh (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An asymmetric spiral inductor fabricated in a semiconductor structure includes a spiral coil, a metal segment, and a connection structure. The spiral coil is substantially disposed in a first metal layer and includes a first terminal and a second terminal. The first terminal is disposed at an outermost turn of the spiral coil, and the second terminal is disp...