ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,785, issued on July 8, was assigned to TDK Corp. (Tokyo).
"Multilayer coil component" was invented by Yusuke Nagai (Tokyo), Takashi Suzuki (Tokyo), Kazuhiro Ebina (Tokyo), Kunihiko Kawasaki (Tokyo), Shinichi Kondo (Tokyo), Yuya Ishima (Tokyo), Shinichi Sato (Tokyo), Seiichi Nakagawa (Tokyo), Keito Yasuda (Tokyo) and Ryuichi Wada (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multilayer coil component includes: an element body containing a plurality of metal magnetic particles; a coil disposed in the element body; and an external electrode disposed on a surface of the element body and electrically connected to the coil. At least a part of a v...