ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,157, issued on May 20, was assigned to Hutchinson Technology Inc. (Hutchinson, Minn.).
"High density coil design and process" was invented by John L. Schumann (Litchfield, Minn.), Nole D. German (Hutchinson, Minn.), Trent A. Johnson (Hutchinson, Minn.), Duane M. Jelkin (Hutchinson, Minn.), Matthew S. Lang (Excelsior, Minn.), Ryan N. Ruzicka (Waconia, Minn.), Forrest A. Cravens (Hutchinson, Minn.), Todd A. Peter (Darwin, Minn.) and Zachary A. Pokornowski (Cokato, Minn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices including a substrate and a plurality of coil portions disposed on the substrate. The plurality of coil portions electrically cou...