ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,485, issued on July 29, was assigned to Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Kyoto-fu, Japan).
"Inductor component" was invented by Daisuke Takahashi (Nagaokakyo, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inductor component comprising an element body; and a coil in the element body and helically wound along an axial direction. The coil includes a first coil wiring wound along a plane orthogonal to the axial direction, a second coil wiring adjacent to the first coil wiring in the axial direction and wound along a plane orthogonal to the axial direction, and a via electrode connecting the first and second coil wirings. The first and second coi...