ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,694, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Kyoto-fu, Japan).
"Inductor component" was invented by Takashi Mizukami (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Hiromi Miyoshi (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Keiichi Yoshinaka (Nagaokakyo, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inductor component includes a substantially rectangular parallelepiped device body including a first lateral surface and includes a coil conductor layer formed into a spiral wound more than one turn on a main surface parallel to the first lateral surface inside the device body. In the coil conductor layer, a wiring spacing between two wiring portions adjacent to e...