US Patent Issued to Murata Manufacturing on Jan. 13 for "Inductor component" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,386, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Kyoto-fu, Japan).

"Inductor component" was invented by Yoshimasa Yoshioka (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Yutaka Noguchi (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Mari Yonemura (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Kenichi Araki (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Kouji Yamauchi (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inductor component includes an element body, a coil, and a first outer electrode and a second outer electrode, in which the coil includes a coil wiring, a first extended wiring, and a second extended wiring. The first extended wiring includes a first connection surface connected to the coil wiring...