ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,961, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Kyoto-fu, Japan).
"Inductor component" was invented by Rikiya Sano (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Hiroyuki Kanbara (Nagaokakyo, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inductor component comprising an element body; a helically wound coil disposed in the element body; and an external electrode disposed in the element body and electrically connected to the coil. The element body includes a plurality of insulating layers and a mark layer constituting a portion of an outer surface of the element body, and a K abundance ratio (atom %) in the mark layer is higher than a K abunda...