ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,484, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"Magnetic thin film inductor structures" was invented by Alan Roth (Leander, Texas), Eric Soenen (Austin, Texas) and Paul Rannuci (Leander, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various magnetic thin film inductor structures are disclosed that include one or more magnetic thin film (MTF) materials. During operation, an electric field passes through one or more conductive windings which, in turn, generates a magnetic field for storing energy within these magnetic thin film inductor structures. The magnetic thin film (MTF) materials wi...