US Patent Issued to TDK on June 24 for "Multilayer filter" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,485, issued on June 24, was assigned to TDK Corp. (Tokyo).

"Multilayer filter" was invented by Yuta Ashida (Tokyo), Shuhei Sawaguchi (Tokyo), Masahiro Tatematsu (Tokyo), Keigo Shibuya (Tokyo), Tomonori Terui (Tokyo) and Tetsuzo Goto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a multilayer filter, first to fourth resonant circuits are connected to an input/output portion. The input/output portion includes an input/output port group including an unbalanced port and a pair of balanced ports or an input/output port group including two pairs of balanced ports. Each of the first to fourth resonant circuits includes an inductor conductor and f...