ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,041, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Kyoto-fu, Japan).
"Inductor component and mounting structure of inductor component" was invented by Yoshimasa Yoshioka (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Kouji Yamauchi (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Katsufumi Sasaki (Nagaokakyo, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inductor component includes an element body, a coil on the body and spirally wound along an axis, first and second external electrodes electrically connected to the coil, and first and second through wirings which penetrate a substrate of the element body between main surfaces. The first coil wirings and through wirings...