ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,119, issued on April 29, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Coil component" was invented by Satoshi Shigematsu (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Kenichi Ishizuka (Nagaokakyo, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coil component includes coils in a multilayer body with a rectangular or substantially rectangular parallelepiped shape. The coil component includes outer electrodes, a first coil, and second coils. The first coil includes conductor patterns and via conductors. When the multilayer body is divided by a bisecting line into first and second regions in a longitudinal direction of the multilayer body when viewed...