ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,567, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to TDK Corp. (Tokyo).

"Multilayer coil component" was invented by Yusuke Nagai (Tokyo), Kazuhiro Ebina (Tokyo), Takahiro Sato (Tokyo), Kunihiko Kawasaki (Tokyo), Shinichi Sato (Tokyo), Shinichi Kondo (Tokyo), Kouichi Kakuda (Tokyo), Yuya Ishima (Tokyo) and Kosuke Ito (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multilayer coil component includes: an element body formed by stacking a magnetic body layer containing a plurality of metal magnetic particles of a soft magnetic material; a first coil disposed in the element body and configured to include a plurality of first coil conductors; a second coil dis...