ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,739, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Analog Devices International UnLtd. Co. (Limerick, Ireland).
"Micro-scale passive device with particles in insulator layer" was invented by Sombel Diaham (Villeneuve les Bouloc, France) and Baoxing Chen (Westford, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Micro-scale passive devices, such as transformers and capacitors, having an insulator layer with insulative particles and/or conductive or nonlinear conductive particles disposed therein. The insulative particles disposed in the insulator layer can increase a breakdown electric field of the device, and the conductive or nonlinear conductive particles...