ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,242, issued on June 17, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Coreless electronic substrates having embedded inductors" was invented by Sanka Ganesan (Chandler, Ariz.), Sri Chaitra Jyotsna Chavali (Chandler, Ariz.), Robert L. Sankman (Phoenix), Anne Augustine (Chandler, Ariz.) and Kaladhar Radhakrishnan (Chandler, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inductor can be formed in a coreless electronic substrate, such that the fabrication process does not result in the magnetic material used in the inductor leaching into plating and/or etching solutions/chemistries, and results in a unique inductor structure. This may be ...