US Patent Issued to TDK on April 8 for "Surface-mount electronic component and circuit board having the same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,999, issued on April 8, was assigned to TDK Corp. (Tokyo).

"Surface-mount electronic component and circuit board having the same" was invented by Tomonaga Nishikawa (Tokyo), Masaki Endo (Tokyo), Masaki Yoneyama (Tokyo), Osamu Nakada (Tokyo), Hironori Sato (Tokyo) and Ryota Naito (Yamanashi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a surface-mount electronic component that includes a main body part having a mounting surface, a first terminal electrode provided on one end side of the mounting surface in a long side direction thereof, and a second terminal electrode provided on other end side of the mounting surface in t...