ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,092, issued on July 15, was assigned to Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Kyoto-fu, Japan).
"Multilayer coil component" was invented by Atsuo Hirukawa (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Kenjirou Koshiji (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Shun Takai (Nagaokakyo, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multilayer coil component that includes a multilayer body in which a plurality of insulating layers are stacked in a stacking direction and a coil inside the multilayer body, and outer electrodes that are on surfaces of the multilayer body and are electrically connected to the coil. The insulating layers include a spinel-structure ferrite phase and a ZnFe(BO3)O-type...