US Patent Issued to Vicor on June 17 for "Planar inductive apparatus and method" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,118, issued on June 17, was assigned to Vicor Corp. (Andover, Mass.).

"Planar inductive apparatus and method" was invented by Patrick R. Lavery (North Andover, Mass.), Jeffrey John LeBlanc (Grafton, Mass.) and Patrizio Vinciarelli (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inductive device with flux paths through a substrate may be made by depositing a malleable magnetically permeable material into a hole in the substrate and curing the malleable magnetically permeable material to form a substantially solid magnetic plug. Deposition of the malleable magnetically permeable material may comprise stencil-printing followed by use of a fle...