ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,008, issued on March 18, was assigned to Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Kyoto-fu, Japan).
"Inductor component" was invented by Yasunari Nakashima (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Shinya Tajima (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Yuta Shimoda (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Daisuke Takahashi (Nagaokakyo, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inductor component includes an element body, a coil provided in the element body, and an outer electrode provided to the element body and electrically connected to the coil. The outer electrode includes an underlying layer embedded in the element body in which part of the underlying layer protrudes from a surface of the element ...