ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,966, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Kyoto-fu, Japan).
"Inductor component" was invented by Tsuyoshi Takamatsu (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Keiichi Yoshinaka (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Minoru Matsunaga (Nagaokakyo, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inductor component comprising an element body; a coil disposed in the element body; and a first external electrode and a second external electrode disposed on the element body and electrically connected to the coil. The coil has a helical structure in which the coil is wound while proceeding along an axis such that the axis is parallel to a bottom surface of the ...