ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,382, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to TDK Corp. (Tokyo).

"Method for manufacturing coil component having resin walls" was invented by Hitoshi Ohkubo (Tokyo), Masazumi Arata (Tokyo), Manabu Ohta (Tokyo), Shou Kawadahara (Tokyo), Yoshihiro Maeda (Tokyo), Takahiro Kawahara (Tokyo), Hokuto Eda (Tokyo) and Shigeki Sato (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a coil component and a method for manufacturing the same, a winding part of a coil is grown by plating so as to extend between resin walls of a resin body provided before the coil is grown by plating. The resin wall is interposed between adjacent turns of the winding part of the ...