ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,249,454, issued on March 11, was assigned to Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Kyoto-fu, Japan).
"Inductor component and method for manufacturing inductor component" was invented by Hiroki Imaeda (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Yoshimasa Yoshioka (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Kazuyuki Yamamoto (Nagaokakyo, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inductor component includes a main body including a magnetic layer, an inductor wiring disposed in the main body, and vertical wirings each of which is connected to the inductor wiring and each of which extends from a portion in which the vertical wiring and the inductor wiring are connected to each other to a firs...