ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,651,689, issued on June 9, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Multi-turn distributed active transformer power combiner" was invented by Tolga Dinc (Dallas) and Swaminathan Sankaran (Allen, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a first primary coil, a second primary coil, and a secondary coil. The first and second primary coils each include a first, second, and third portion. The secondary coil includes a first and second portion in a first wafer layer, which are coupled together by a bridge in a second wafer layer. The second portion of the first primary coil is nested inside the first portion of the se...