ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,978, issued on March 25, 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 includes an element assembly; a coil inside the element assembly and helically wound along an axis; and first and second outer electrodes in the element assembly and electrically connected to the coil. The element assembly has insulating layers stacked along the axis. The coil has pieces of coil wiring stacked along the axis and via wiring extending along the axis and connecting the pieces of coil wiring adjacent in a d...