US Patent Issued to Intel on July 15 for "Multi-layer balanced-to-unbalanced (balun) transmission line transformer with harmonic rejection" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,087, issued on July 15, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Multi-layer balanced-to-unbalanced (balun) transmission line transformer with harmonic rejection" was invented by Genadi Blay (BatYam, Israel), Uzi Zohar (Ramat Gan, Israel) and Jacob Solomon (Kiryat-Yam, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A balanced-to-unbalanced (balun) transformer includes a primary inductor coupled to an unbalanced terminal and a secondary inductor coupled to a balanced terminal. The primary inductor is configured on a second layer and a third layer of a four-layer symmetrical stack-up. The secondary inductor is configured on a first l...