ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,970, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to TDK Corp. (Tokyo).
"Coil component" was invented by Nobuyuki Okuzawa (Tokyo), Kazuhiko Ito (Tokyo), Munehiro Takaku (Tokyo) and Junichiro Urabe (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a coil component that includes a resin body having a first resin-based insulating material and a second resin-based insulating material lower in relative permittivity than the first resin-based insulating material, a coil pattern embedded in the resin body and helically wound in a plurality of turns, and first and second terminal electrodes formed on a surface of the resin body and connected respec...