ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,783, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Transformer including first and second windings, and first and second cores, and having structure for preventing core cracking" was invented by Takehiko Yamakawa (Osaka, Japan), Hiromu Matsumoto (Osaka, Japan), Susumu Nakamura (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yutaka Miyamoto (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transformer includes a primary winding, a secondary winding, a first core, and a second core. The primary winding and the secondary winding are inserted into the first core and the second core, and the first core and ...