ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,948, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Kyoto-fu, Japan).
"Inductor component and method of manufacturing same" was invented by Yoshimasa Yoshioka (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Takahiro Ogoshi (Nagaokakyo, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inductor component comprising an element body having laminated insulating layers; a coil in the element body and wound into a helical shape advancing in a lamination direction of the insulating layers; and a substrate on an upper surface of the element body. The coil includes coil wirings along the lamination direction and wound along a plane orthogonal to the laminat...