ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,316, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to CHILISIN ELECTRONICS CORP. (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

"Inductive device" was invented by Ming-Chieh Chiu (Taoyuan, Taiwan) and Shan-Cheng Wu (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inductive device is provided. The inductive device includes a laminated body and two external electrodes. The laminated body includes an insulator and a plurality of conductive wiring layers stacked in a first direction. The conductive wiring layers are embedded within the insulator, and any two adjacent ones of the conductive wiring layers are electrically connected to each other to form a coiled conductor e...