ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,626,853, issued on May 12, was assigned to Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Kyoto-fu, Japan).
"Winding-type coil component" was invented by Kohei Kobayashi (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Ryota Hashimoto (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Hiroyuki Tei (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Chihiro Yamaguchi (Nagaokakyo, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A winding-type coil component includes a first wire and a second wire having a twisted wire portion where the first wire and the second wire are twisted together. Switching positions of the first wire and the second wire in the twisted wire portion are shifted in a circumferential direction of a winding core portion every turn....