ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,007, issued on March 18, was assigned to Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Kyoto-fu, Japan).
"Coil component" was invented by Yoshifumi Maki (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Reiichi Matsuba (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Takashi Sukegawa (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Yasuhiro Itani (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Takanori Suzuki (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Yuuki Kitadai (Nagaokakyo, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coil component includes a core including a winding core portion and a first flange portion, a first wire and a second wire that are wound around the winding core portion in the same direction, and a first terminal electrode that is disposed on the first flange por...