US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on March 17 for "Laminate transformer with overlapping lead frame" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,115, issued on March 17, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Laminate transformer with overlapping lead frame" was invented by Dongbin Hou (Plano, Texas) and Zhemin Zhang (Allen, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus has a laminate substrate that has a first surface and an opposite second surface. A laminate transformer is located within the laminate substrate between the first surface and the second surface. The transformer has a first coil adjacent the first surface and a second coil adjacent the second surface. A magnetic core element on the first surface overlaps a portion of the first coil. A lead fram...