ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,718, issued on July 15, was assigned to TDK Corp. (Tokyo).
"Multilayer band-pass filter" was invented by Takeshi Oohashi (Tokyo) and Hideya Matsubara (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A band-pass filter includes a first inductor and a second inductor electromagnetically coupled to each other, a first ground terminal electrically connected to the first inductor, a second ground terminal electrically connected to the second inductor, and a stack for integrating the first inductor, the second inductor, the first ground terminal, and the second ground terminal. The first ground terminal and the second ground terminal are each connect...