ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,484,160, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Technologies for shielding an inductor on a circuit board" was invented by Ranjul Balakrishnan (Bangalore, India), Sandesh G. Krishnamurthy (Bengaluru, India) and Jackson C.P. Kong (Tanjung Tokong, Malaysia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technologies for shielding an inductor on a circuit board are disclosed. In the illustrative embodiments, a circuit board has a voltage regulator on top of it and one or more signal traces routed beneath or near the voltage regulator. Partial metal vias are positioned between the signal traces and the voltage regulator. The p...