US Patent Issued to Realtek Semiconductor on Dec. 2 for "Inductor device" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,931, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Realtek Semiconductor Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Inductor device" was invented by Hsiao-Tsung Yen (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Jian-You Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Ka-Un Chan (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inductor device includes a first trace, a second trace, and a capacitor. The first trace includes at least two sub-traces. One terminal of each of the at least two sub-traces are coupled to each other at a first node. The second trace includes at least two sub-traces. One terminal of each of the at least two sub-traces are coupled to each other at a second node. The capacitor is coupled...