US Patent Issued to Kostal of America on Oct. 28 for "Planar magnetic devices exhibiting enhanced thermal performance" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,570, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Kostal of America Inc. (Troy, Mich.).

"Planar magnetic devices exhibiting enhanced thermal performance" was invented by Alan Joseph (Shelby Township, Mich.) and Joel Anderson (Ferndale, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A magnetic device, such as an inductor or transformer, having enhanced thermal performance characteristics includes first and second parallel adjacent conductive layers patterned to define conductive spiral traces, wherein the traces are geometrically patterned to avoid overlapping of gap areas defined between the adjacent spiral traces, and thereby provide for improved heat ...