ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,453,061, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Monolithic Power Systems Inc. (Kirkland, Wash.).

"Sandwich structure power module" was invented by Daocheng Huang (Kirkland, Wash.), Xu Han (Kirkland, Wash.) and Zhe Yang (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power module includes a first power module and a second power module arranged below the first power module. The first power module includes at least one input pad configured to receive an input voltage and at least one power pad configured to provide an intermediate voltage. The at least one input pad is mounted on a top surface of the first power module, and the at least one p...