ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,610, issued on April 15, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Multilayer LC filter" was invented by Keisuke Ogawa (Nagaokakyo, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Multiple LC parallel resonators in which inductors and capacitors are connected in parallel are located inside a multilayer body. The inductors each include a loop inductor including a line-shaped conductor pattern and at least one pair of via conductors connected to the line-shaped conductor pattern. When the multilayer body is seen through in a height direction, in all the loop inductors of the LC parallel resonators, open via conductors are clos...