ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,417, issued on May 13, was assigned to TDK Corp. (Tokyo).
"Electronic component and information reading method" was invented by Toru Tonogai (Tokyo), Kyosuke Inui (Tokyo), Yuichi Oyanagi (Tokyo) and Izuru Kimura (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An element body includes a metal-particle-dispersed body in which metal particles are dispersed, the metal-particle-dispersed body includes a display region on a surface, and the display region includes a display pattern in which a resin exposed portion where a resin appears on a surface and a metal exposed portion where the metal particles appear on the surface are alternately repeated."...