ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,370, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Kyoto-fu, Japan).
"Coil component" was invented by Hiroyuki Honda (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Ryota Hashimoto (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Kaori Takezawa (Nagaokakyo, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coil component includes a core that includes a winding core portion and a coil that is wound around the winding core portion and that includes a plurality of wires. The coil includes a stranded wire portion that is formed by twisting the plurality of wires together. The stranded wire portion forms a bank region including a first layer that is formed by continuously windin...