US Patent Issued to Murata Manufacturing on July 21 for "Inductor component" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,962, issued on July 21, was assigned to Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Kyoto-fu, Japan).

"Inductor component" was invented by Yoshimasa Yoshioka (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Ryo Kudou (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inductor component includes a rectangular parallelepiped element body inside which a inductor wire extends in the first layer. The inductor wire includes a wiring body extending linearly, and first and second pads at first and second ends, respectively, of the wiring body. Of the surface of the element body, the dimension of the upper main face in the thickness direction in the longitudinal direction is 2....