ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,041, issued on April 15, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRO-MECHANICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Coil component" was invented by Soo Yeol Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coil component includes a body, a support substrate, a coil portion on one surface of the support substrate, and first and second external electrodes disposed on the body and connected to the coil portion. 100 micro metreless than equal to0.5*b*tan Theta, where, on a cross-section perpendicular to the one surface of the support substrate, P1 is a point among points at which an outline of one coil turn and the support substrate intersec...