ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,971, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to TDK Corp. (Tokyo).

"Coil component and manufacturing method therefor" was invented by Takuya Takeuchi (Tokyo), Yuuichi Kawaguchi (Tokyo), Masanori Suzuki (Tokyo) and Naoaki Fujii (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coil component has a magnetic element body made of resin containing magnetic particles, a coil part embedded in the magnetic element body, conductor posts which are embedded in the magnetic element body and whose one ends are connected to the coil part and the other ends are exposed from the magnetic element body, an insulating layer interposed between the conductor posts and the m...