ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,974, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Kyoto-fu, Japan).

"Method of manufacturing coil component" was invented by Masayuki Oishi (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Takashi Sakai (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of manufacturing a coil component which includes an element body including magnetic layers stacked in a first direction and having a surface located in the first direction or a second direction reverse to the first direction, a coil and extended wiring in the element body, and an outer electrode at least on the surface. The method includes forming an unbaked coil wiring layer zone b...