US Patent Issued to Murata Manufacturing on Feb. 3 for "Inductor component and method of manufacturing inductor component" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,234, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Kyoto-fu, Japan).

"Inductor component and method of manufacturing inductor component" was invented by Yoshimasa Yoshioka (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Ryuichiro Tominaga (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Yayoi Hisada (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inductor component includes an element body, a coil in the element body, and a non-magnetic insulation layer covering at least part of the coil. The element body includes first and second magnetic layers laminated in order in a first direction. The coil includes a small-turn inductor wiring of 0.5 or less turns extendin...