ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,101, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS (Urbana, Ill.).

"Electroplating method for enhancing the performance of rolled-up passive components" was invented by Xiuling Li (Austin, Texas), Apratim Khandelwal (Champaign, Ill.) and Zhendong Yang (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electroplating method for enhancing the performance of rolled-up passive components comprises providing an array of rolled-up passive components on a substrate, where each rolled-up passive component comprises a multilayer strip in a rolled configuration including multiple turns spaced apart by gap...