ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,241, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to TDK Corp. (Tokyo).

"Dust core and electronic device" was invented by Ayumi Tsuchida (Tokyo), Ryoma Nakazawa (Tokyo) and Junichi Shimamura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dust core includes magnetic particles, an epoxy resin, and an additive. The epoxy resin has at least two or more mesogenic skeletons between two epoxy bonds adjacent along a molecular chain. The additive includes one or more metallic elements selected from Li, Ba, Mg, and Ca."

The patent was filed on June 3, 2022, under Application No. 17/831,729.

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