ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,550, issued on July 8, was assigned to Monolithic Power Systems Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Sandwich structure power supply module" was invented by Daocheng Huang (Santa Clara, Calif.), Wenyang Huang (Hangzhou, China), Yishi Su (Hangzhou, China), Yingxin Zhou (Hangzhou, China) and Xinmin Zhang (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power supply module having at least one inductor modules, a top PCB mounted on top of the at least one inductor modules, and at least one pair of power device chips mounted on top of the top PCB, wherein power pins and signal pins for connecting the top PCB and a board that the at least one induct...