US Patent Issued to Realtek Semiconductor on July 15 for "Inductor device and control method thereof" (Taiwanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,091, issued on July 15, was assigned to Realtek Semiconductor Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Inductor device and control method thereof" was invented by Ping-Yuan Deng (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inductor device includes an 8-shaped inductor and a ring-type wire. The ring-type wire is disposed around an outer side of the 8-shaped inductor. The 8-shaped inductor includes an input terminal and a center-tapped terminal. The input terminal of the 8-shaped inductor is located on a first side of the inductor device, and the center-tapped terminal is located on a second side of the inductor device. The ring-type wire inclu...