ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,628, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Kyoto-fu, Japan).
"Inductor component" was invented by Yuichi Iida (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Fumihiko Naruse (Nagaokakyo, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inductor component comprising a single-layer glass plate of a rectangular parallelepiped shape with a width, a length longer than the width, and a height, and having a bottom surface defined by the length and width and a top surface positioned on a back side of the bottom surface; bottom-surface and top-surface conductors disposed above the bottom and top surfaces, respectively; through wirings each extendi...