ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,596, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Kyoto-fu, Japan).
"Inductor component" was invented by Yoshimasa Yoshioka (Nagaokakyo, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inductor component that causes no electric current to be flowed between external terminals until the inductor component is mounted on a substrate, for example, and includes an element body and an inductor wire that extends in the inside of the element body. To the inductor wire, a first vertical wire is connected. The top surface of the first vertical wire is exposed from the principal surface of the element body. On the top surface of the...