US Patent Issued to Murata Manufacturing on April 8 for "Multilayer coil component" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,272,485, issued on April 8, was assigned to Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Kyoto-fu, Japan).

"Multilayer coil component" was invented by Atsuo Hirukawa (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Suradech Nohchai (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Shun Takai (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Kenjirou Koshiji (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multilayer coil component includes a body formed by multiple insulating layers stacked in a direction of stacking and having first and second end surfaces opposite each other in a length direction, first and second main surfaces opposite each other in a height direction, perpendicular to the length direction, and first and secon...