ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,709, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Kyoto-fu, Japan).
"Coil component" was invented by Reiichi Matsuba (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Yoshifumi Maki (Nagaokakyo, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coil component includes a core, terminal electrodes, and a wire. The core includes a winding core and a pair of flanges. Each flange of the pair of flanges is disposed on the corresponding one of two ends of the winding core. The terminal electrodes are at the flanges. The wire is wound around the winding core. Two ends of the wire are electrically connected to the respective terminal electrodes. The terminal...