US Patent Issued to Murata Manufacturing on July 7 for "Inductor" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,260, issued on July 7, was assigned to Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Kyoto-fu, Japan).

"Inductor" was invented by Seiya Kikuchi (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inductor in which when transparently viewed in an axis-line direction of a coil, a center position of a long via conductor in a width direction, which is a direction orthogonal to a longitudinal direction of the long via conductor, is deviated from a center position in the width direction of a first pad portion which is one of the pad portions and connected to the long via conductor."

The patent was filed on Sept. 22, 2022, under Application No. 17/934,40...