ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,812, issued on May 20, was assigned to TDK Corp. (Tokyo).

"Multilayer electronic component" was invented by Takuya Sato (Tokyo) and Seisuke Mochizuka (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic component includes a first and second inductor forming sections integrated with a stack, and a connection conductor layer connecting the first and second inductor forming sections inside the stack. In the first inductor forming section, two first through hole lines are connected to a wide portion of an inductor conductor layer, and two second through hole lines are connected to a narrow portion of the inductor conductor layer. In the s...