ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,309, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Integrated transformer with a cured magnetic core piece" was invented by Yi Yan (San Jose, Calif.), Zhemin Zhang (Allen, Texas), Yuki Sato (Tokyo), Kenji Otake (Nagano, Japan) and Vijaylaxmi Khanolkar (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes performing a printing process that deposits a magnetic paste onto a first side and into an opening of a laminate; curing the magnetic paste to form a first transformer core piece having a first portion along the first side and a second portion filling the opening of the laminate; joining a second transf...