ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,620,520, issued on May 5, was assigned to Synopsys Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Overlapped inductor structure" was invented by Jayesh Wadekar (Pune, India), Jayashankar Mv (Bangalore, India), Jairaj Naik K R (Bangalore, India) and Atul Kabra (Pune, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inductor structure includes a first inductor and a second inductor. A first portion of the first inductor is disposed on a first layer and a second portion of the first inductor is disposed on a second layer. A first portion of the second inductor is disposed on the first layer and a second portion of the second inductor is disposed on the second layer. ...