ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,631, issued on April 29, was assigned to ESSEX FURUKAWA MAGNET WIRE JAPAN Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Insulated wire, coil, and electrical or electronic equipment" was invented by Daisuke Muto (Tokyo), Keiichi Tomizawa (Tokyo) and Hideo Fukuda (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An insulated wire including: a conductor; and an insulating film provided on an outer periphery of the conductor, wherein the insulating film satisfies the following relation between a relative permittivity (Epsilon) of the insulating film at 0.2 atm and a relative permittivity (Epsilon0) of an outermost layer of the insulating film at 0.2 atm.Epsilonless than equal ...