ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,006, issued on March 18, was assigned to Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Kyoto-fu, Japan).
"Inductor" was invented by Mikiya Aoki (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Yasutaka Mizukoshi (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Yuusuke Morita (Nagaokakyo, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inductor that includes a body having a magnetic portion containing a magnetic powder and a first resin; a coil that is encapsulated in the body and includes a winding portion formed by winding a conductor and a pair of lead-out portions that extend from the winding portion; and a pair of outer electrodes to which at least end portions of the lead-out portions are connected at ...