US Patent Issued to Murata Manufacturing on Feb. 10 for "Electronic component carrier tape, electronic component packaging tape, and electronic component package" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,487, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Electronic component carrier tape, electronic component packaging tape, and electronic component package" was invented by Koichi Iwamoto (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Yasuhiro Shimizu (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic component carrier tape has an elongated shape, and includes a plurality of recessed pockets at equal or substantially equal intervals in a longitudinal direction and each accommodating a respective one of the plurality of electronic components. The electronic component carrier tape includes a flat plate-shaped ...