ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,247, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Kyoto-fu, Japan).
"Inductor component" was invented by Katsufumi Sasaki (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Yoshimasa Yoshioka (Nagaokakyo, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inductor component includes an element body; and a coil in the element body. The element body includes a metal magnetic powder-containing resin having a resin and metal magnetic powder in the resin. The element body has a rectangular parallelepiped shape having first and second principal surfaces facing each other, and first, second, third and fourth side surfaces connected to the first and second p...