ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,553, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Qorvo US Inc. (Greensboro, N.C.).
"Tunable inductor device" was invented by Kevin Wesley Kobayashi (Redondo Beach, Calif.) and Julio C. Costa (Oak Ridge, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a tunable inductor device having a substrate, a planar spiral conductor having a plurality of spaced-apart turns disposed over the substrate, and a phase change switch (PCS) having a patch of a phase change material (PCM) disposed over the substrate between and in contact with a pair of adjacent segments of the plurality of spaced-apart turns, wherein the patch of the PCM is electrically insulat...