ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,508, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Methods, apparatuses, integrated circuits, and circuit boards for power conversion with reduced parasitics" was invented by Gregory Szczeszynski (Nashua, N.H.) and Jeffrey Chad Bryan (Rindge, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed embodiments include methods, apparatuses, integrated circuits, and circuit boards for power conversion with reduced parasitics. The apparatuses include an integrated circuit for power conversion. The integrated circuit includes a plurality of power transistors and a plurality of metal regions coupled to the power t...