ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,684, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Eddy current mitigation for on-chip inductors" was invented by Behzad Biglarbegian (San Jose, Calif.), Hongrui Wang (San Jose, Calif.), Abbas Komijani (Mountain View, Calif.) and Reetika K Agarwal (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device may include a transceiver with a substrate and an inductor on the substrate. A ring of ground traces may surround the inductor. Circuit components may be patterned onto the substrate overlapping the inductor, a region of the substrate surrounded by the inductor, and/or a region of the substrate betwe...