ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,682, issued on May 27, was assigned to Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Kyoto-fu, Japan).
"Passive component and package component" was invented by Yoshimasa Yoshioka (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Kenji Toyoshima (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Takaaki Mizuno (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Toshiyuki Nakaiso (Nagaokakyo, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A passive component includes an inorganic substrate having a first main surface and a second main surface, which are opposed to each other, and contains a semiconductor material; and a passive element portion on the first main surface of the inorganic substrate so as to be in contact with the first main surfac...