ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,232, issued on June 24, was assigned to TDK Corp. (Tokyo).
"Irreversible circuit element and method of manufacturing irreversible circuit element" was invented by Tomoyuki Sasaki (Tokyo) and Yoshiaki Sato (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An irreversible circuit element includes: a housing; a plurality of irreversible circuit plates accommodated in the housing; and a plurality of terminals connected to an outer surface of the housing, the plurality of irreversible circuit plates are arranged such that the adjacent irreversible circuit plates face each other, each of the plurality of irreversible circuit plates includes a metal la...