ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,406,800, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Kyoto-fu, Japan).
"Multilayer coil component" was invented by Kazuya Koizumi (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Atsuo Hirukawa (Nagaokakyo, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multilayer coil component includes a multilayer body including laminated insulating layers, a coil including electrically connecting coil conductors laminated together with the insulating layers, and first and second outer electrodes electrically connected to the coil. The body has first and second end surfaces opposing each other in a length direction in which the first and second outer electrodes ...