US Patent Issued to Murata Manufacturing on Sept. 9 for "Passive component, three-dimensional device, and method for manufacturing passive component" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,698, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Kyoto-fu, Japan).

"Passive component, three-dimensional device, and method for manufacturing passive component" was invented by Yoshimasa Yoshioka (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A passive component includes a body portion having a first main surface and a passive element at least a part of which is provided inside the body portion. The first main surface at least partially includes a flat surface made of an inorganic substance and having a surface roughness of equal to or less than 1/1000 of a thickness of the body portion in a direction orthog...