ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,158, issued on May 20, was assigned to Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Kyoto-fu, Japan).
"Coil component" was invented by Ryota Hashimoto (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Takashi Sukegawa (Nagaokakyo, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A winding core includes, for example, four planes, that is, a top surface, a bottom surface, a first side surface, and a second side surface around its central axis. A first wire and a second wire are wound around the winding core in the same direction and have a twisted section. In the twisted section in a plurality of turns at the top surface, bottom surface, first side surface, and second side surface, both...