US Patent Issued to Murata Manufacturing on April 15 for "Inductor component and method for manufacturing the same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,040, issued on April 15, was assigned to Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Kyoto-fu, Japan).

"Inductor component and method for manufacturing the same" was invented by Shin Hasegawa (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Tatsuya Sasaki (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Shinya Hirai (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Ikuno Sugiyama (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Toshimitsu Tamura (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inductor component and a method for manufacturing an inductor component that enables the inductor component to be miniaturized. An inductor component includes an annular core; and a coil including a plurality of pin members and wound on the core with neighboring...