ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,141, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Kyoto-fu, Japan).

"Coil component" was invented by Kouhei Matsuura (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coil component includes a bare body including, in a lamination direction, a first glass layer, a first ferrite layer adjacent to one principal surface side of the first glass layer, and a second ferrite layer adjacent to the other principal surface side of the first glass layer, a coil inside the first glass layer, and outer electrodes on surfaces of the bare body and electrically connected to the coil. Assuming that a region between first and s...