US Patent Issued to Murata Manufacturing on March 24 for "Coil component" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,710, issued on March 24, was assigned to Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Kyoto-fu, Japan).

"Coil component" was invented by Hayato Takahashi (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Yuki Kanbe (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Kaori Takezawa (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Tetsuya Tanimoto (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Ryota Hashimoto (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coil component includes a drum core including a winding core portion and first and second flange portions, and first and second wires. A portion of the first wire that first comes into contact with an outer peripheral surface of the winding core portion when the first wire is traced from a first wire ...