ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,816, issued on May 20, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).
"Common mode noise filter" was invented by Takuji Kawashima (Fukui, Japan), Nariaki Ishida (Fukui, Japan) and Hideki Tanaka (Fukui, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a common mode noise filter that can improve attenuation characteristics of common mode noise over a wide frequency range. The common mode noise filter of the present disclosure includes: two magnetic sections and each of which is made of a magnetic material; and non-magnetic section disposed between magnetic sections in a stacking ...