ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,929, issued on May 20, was assigned to Monolithic Power Systems Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Sandwich structure power supply module" was invented by Daocheng Huang (Santa Clara, Calif.), Xinmin Zhang (San Jose, Calif.), Jinghai Zhou (Saratoga, Calif.) and Chiahsin Chang (Cupertina, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sandwich structure power supply module, having: an inductor pack having a first inductor and a second inductor; a bottom PCB (Printed Circuit Board) at the bottom of the sandwich structure power supply module; a top PCB on top of the inductor pack; a connector coupled between the bottom PCB and the top PCB, coupling sol...