US Patent Issued to VIRGINIA TECH INTELLECTUAL PROPERTIES on March 18 for "Multi-phase integrated coupled inductor structure" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,004, issued on March 18, was assigned to VIRGINIA TECH INTELLECTUAL PROPERTIES INC. (Blacksburg, Va.).

"Multi-phase integrated coupled inductor structure" was invented by Feiyang Zhu (Blacksburg, Va.), Qiang Li (Blacksburg, Va.) and Fred C. Lee (Blacksburg, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of multi-phase integrated coupled inductors are described. In one embodiment, a multi-phase integrated coupled inductor includes a magnetic core and a coupled set of inductors. Each inductor can include conductive vias that are asymmetrically distributed in two symmetrical core slots in the magnetic core, so that each inductor has a diff...