ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,218, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Monolithic Power Systems Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Sandwich structure power supply module" was invented by Daocheng Huang (Santa Clara, Calif.), Zhao Yuan (San Jose, Calif.), Yishi Su (Hangzhou, China), Wenyang Huang (Hangzhou, China) and Xintong Lyu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sandwich structure power supply module, having: an inductor pack having at least one inductor; a top PCB (Printed Circuit Board) on top of the inductor pack; and at least one power device chip on top of the top PCB, wherein each one of the power device chips has at least one pin connected to an ass...