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Raised / Elevated SMT inductors -- hard to find?

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smoothVTer:
Wondering if anybody here has designed with elevated SMT inductors ... the kind that have tabs for elevating the inductor body above the Dc/Dc controller chip, in order to reduce the X/Y footprint of the total system.   

I am having trouble finding suitable sources for these inductors.   Are these usually custom made? 

TI app note https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjThuD39fDYAhXoQd8KHSMyDwcQFggpMAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ti.com%2Fanalog%2Fdocs%2Flitabsmultiplefilelist.tsp%3FliteratureNumber%3Dslva764%26docCategoryId%3D1%26familyId%3D751&usg=AOvVaw20rdyIYzSzJEeFDswc-LEv mentions these inductors are custom-made.

I already know about Coilcraft's XAR7030 series off-the-shelf solution, but there are about 2.5x too wide in the X/Y to fit onto my PCB.    I'm looking for off-the-shelf solutions with a footprint of around 3mm x 3mm maximum.

Anybody know where to find such parts?

Gribo:
While I can't find it now, Murata had capacitors with raised tabs. I would also check with other manufacturers (Wurth, Sumida, Vishay, TDK) if they plan to introduce a similar product (Coilcraft published it in late 2017).

dciliske:
Just so anyone who happens to go searching the web for this like me: It looks like it got patented, and I guess folks decided it wasn't worth licensing.

https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/patents/patent/WO-2015074247-A1
https://portal.unifiedpatents.com/patents/patent/CN-102592781-A

Actually... there's a lot of patents for this, so, idk. But I guess that's my theory on this anyways.

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