ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,249,467, issued on March 11, was assigned to TDK Corp. (Tokyo).
"Electronic component" was invented by Shinya Onodera (Tokyo), Akitoshi Yoshii (Tokyo) and Kyohei Takata (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plurality of external electrodes are disposed on both ends of an element body. Each of the plurality of external electrodes includes a pair of electrode portions disposed on a pair of side surfaces and including a conductive resin layer. For each of the two conductive resin layers located on the same side surface, one conductive resin layer includes an edge opposing another conductive resin layer. The conductive resin layer include...