ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,661, issued on May 27, was assigned to Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Kyoto-fu, Japan).
"Magnetic compact and inductor" was invented by Keiichi Ishida (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Keita Muneuchi (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Nobuyuki Fujisawa (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Yoshinobu Kimura (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Yoshihiko Hattori (Nagaokakyo, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A magnetic compact includes first magnetic particles, second magnetic particles with larger particle sizes than the first magnetic particles, and a resin. The area ratios calculated for multiple regions of the magnetic compact have a standard deviation of 0.40 or less, where area rati...