US Patent Issued to KOA on Sept. 23 for "Resistor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,356, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to KOA Corp. (Nagano, Japan).

"Resistor" was invented by Yohei Tokiwa (Nagano, Japan), Kohji Eto (Nagano, Japan), Tomofumi Noguchi (Nagano, Japan) and Reina Kaneko (Nagano, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A resistor contains a resistance body and a pair of electrodes (a first electrode body and a second electrode body), wherein end surfaces of the resistance body are respectively abutted to and bonded to end surfaces of the electrodes (a first electrode body and a second electrode body), the electrodes (a first electrode body and a second electrode body) each includes a main body portion an...