ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,892, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to TDK Corp. (Tokyo).

"Soft magnetic alloy powder, soft magnetic sintered body, and coil-type electronic component" was invented by Takashi Suzuki (Tokyo), Yu Sakurai (Tokyo), Hideyuki Itoh (Tokyo), Kouichi Kakuda (Tokyo), Ryuichi Wada (Tokyo), Nami Enomoto (Tokyo), Yusuke Nagai (Tokyo), Kunihiko Kawasaki (Tokyo), Shinichi Kondo (Tokyo) and Yuya Ishima (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A soft magnetic metal powder or the like from which a soft magnetic metal fired body can be provided has a high magnetic permeability Mu and a specific resistance Rho and is contained in a coil-type electronic c...