ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,005, issued on March 18, was assigned to NITTO DENKO Corp. (Osaka, Japan).
"Inductor" was invented by Yoshihiro Furukawa (Osaka, Japan) and Keisuke Okumura (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inductor includes a first wire and a second wire, a first magnetic layer containing magnetic particles having an approximately spherical shape, a second magnetic layer containing magnetic particles having an approximately flat shape, and a third magnetic layer containing magnetic particles having an approximately flat shape. The relative permeability of each of the second magnetic layer and the third magnetic layer is higher than th...