ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,532, issued on Oct. 14, 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 wire and a magnetic layer which has a via, having an inner peripheral surface. On a cross-section across the via, a first point and a second point are located at one side and the other side in a direction in which the first principal surface extends and are kept 50 micro metre away from a first edge on one side of the inner peripheral surface in the thickness direction, and a third point and a fourth point are loca...