ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,249,448, issued on March 11, was assigned to KOA Corp. (Nagano, Japan).
"Resistor and manufacturing method of resistor" was invented by Kohji Eto (Nagano, Japan), Yohei Tokiwa (Nagano, Japan), Reina Kaneko (Nagano, Japan) and Jumpei Yamamoto (Nagano, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A resistor is provided with a resistance body and a pair of electrodes connected to the resistance body (a first electrode body, a second electrode body), the resistance body being arranged so as to be at least separated away from a substrate board (a circuit board) when mounted on the substrate board (the circuit board), wherein the resistor has the oxi...